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Thursday 14 August 2014 4:32 am  |  Updated:  Friday 07 June 2019 2:32 am

Richard Branson’s PM Chequers boast sparks awkward Twitter questions

By: Gabriella Griffith

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Richard Branson’s latest blog has been conjuring some awkward questions on Twitter. The entrepreneur wrote about relationship between business and politics before stating, “Dined at Chequers with 9 of last 10 Prime Ministers. Won’t reveal who didn’t invite me – was it something I said?!”

Impressive, you might say. But Michael Jary, partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants and non exec director of Nationwide, called him out on his boast. “So your first visit would have been with Alec Douglas-Home in 1964, & you would have been 14. Wow!” he tweeted.

Meow. Do we detect some doubt there?

.@richardbranson So your first visit would have been with Alec Douglas-Home in 1964, & you would have been 14. Wow!

— Michael Jary (@Michael_Jary) August 13, 2014

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