Sir james golfsmith biography sample
Sir james golfsmith biography sample
Sir james golfsmith biography sample template.
Industrialist Who led Anti-Europe Crusade
Sir James Goldsmith, who has died of a heart attack, was a flamboyant billionaire financier.He retired from commerce and founded a political party to protect the United Kingdom from the tentacles of Europe.
He was an imposing, domineering, buccaneering and uncompromising figure in the world of business, attributes which he later, in the 1990s, brought to the political arena.
Sir James exuded an aura of arrogance and his decision to field more than 550 candidates under the banner of his Referendum Party in the 1997 general election, annoyed the Conservative Party.
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His Referendum Party, which crusaded against further European Union integration, was a temptation for many Tory Euro-sceptics who frankly preferred his policies to those of their then leader, John Major.
At the election, the Referendum Party secured just 3% of the vote (810,231 votes).
But significantly there were 17 seats where the Tories were runners-up and