Love, Pain & Money: The Making of a Billionaire

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If he cleaned his act up and made it clear to MPs that they cannot take money from other sources, and started trying to get the government on a very ethical, whiter-than-white basis, I guess I would still support him. Caudwell was the owner of the South African F1 Powerboat racing team Caudwell Racing which competed in the championship between the 2012 and the 2014 seasons. Rather than being an empire, which sounds very grand, I think of it more as a house of cards, or multiple houses of cards - actually, an estate of houses of cards. She was moving closer to where I was standing, laughing with her mates and every few minutes throwing her dazzling smile in my direction. Caudwell said he had held talks with the chancellor about his own plans for helping Britain through the pandemic, including investing in future infrastructure, green industry and apprenticeships.

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The mobile phone market was growing at a huge rate in the 1990s and 2000s and John was a determined operator with a crack team.It employed 10,000 people in the UK and abroad – though primarily in the UK, with its headquarters in John’s hometown of Stoke-on-Trent. Stiils taken from BBC Crimewatch in which a reconstruction of the robbery at John Caudwell's home was shown.

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The businessman John Caudwell has vowed to shun tax avoidance schemes after using them to build his Phones4U empire in the 1990s. The tot - named William John - is now settling into life at one of the family's homes in Monaco before they move back to Broughton Hall, near Eccleshall, when restrictions allow. He has since set up a number of philanthropic projects including Caudwell Children, a children’s charity.When my wife and I got married,” he says, “we came back to the caravan–that was our honeymoon night. Caudwell, who was one of the Conservative party’s biggest individual donors at the last general election, told the BBC that the government’s “perceived arrogance” was “impossible to justify”. He drew attention this month when he issued an ultimatum to Boris Johnson over revelations about lockdown parties in Downing Street. At the time, John, who grew up in Shelton, said: "“The police approached us about taking part in Crimewatch, because it could potentially be very useful in stimulating information. Ahead lay a mission that was to reveal in him elements not only of astounding courage and determination, but also of incredible foolhardiness.

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While John remains active in business, he now devotes most of his time to his lifelong philanthropic ambitions. It was at a car auction in 1987, the height of Mrs Thatcher's booming Britain,that he spotted the future. Everybody knew everyone else and their business was your business, so a fair few curtains were twitching as I drove up in the Jaguar. Two decades later and one of those properties - on Ubberley Road - became home to a tearaway schoolboy with thin, ginger hair and freckle-covered face who would grow up to be one of the richest men in the UK.John said: “It was always edge of the seat, every second of every day, and often for very long hours to hold together this empire. Those solutions included doing deals with all the major phone suppliers, becoming a massive service provider selling airtime on behalf of companies, including Vodafone and Cellnet, and building up Britain’s biggest team of phone repair specialists. The prime minister’s personal approval ratings continue to be in the doldrums at -31%, though it is an improvement from the record low of -35% recorded two weeks ago.