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Chairman of UK furniture manufacturer and retailer DFS, ennobled in 2000.. Believed to have saved the Conservative Party from bankruptcy in the 1990s with a donation of £4 million, he continues to donate smaller amounts. Not a man for insincere spin, Tory head of DFS sofas is relaxed about Budget, he once told a questioner "You'd better get that from somebody who knows about numbers. I'm more into bullshit."

Further evidence of his open-mindedness is his £5,000 donation to the constituency association of his friend, Liberal Democrat MP Lord Thurso - who said "He is a very old friend. He told me he didn't believe in anything I stood for but gave me the money just the same."

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