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Powell told Channel 4's 'Dispatches' programme, in answer to a series of written questions in April , that, at that stage, he had not been asked to give evidence, and he had not volunteered any. In an interview in The Times newspaper on September 6, , he said:. Ole Hansen noted that 'During her last six years as Prime Minister, [Powell] had become her most trusted adviser and, perhaps, the second most powerful person in No He controlled her foreign policy in-tray and, by her own evidence, decided what she needed to be told.

The Guardian argues that Powell and his family "have intimate knowledge of the al-Yamamah deals". The school was itself the subject of controversy.

Charles Powell: Margaret Thatcher would have rather voted to stay in the EU

Michael White, writing in The Guardian in , stated that as well as the vice-chancellor of Oxford and three senior academic colleagues, the trustees of the business school include five appointed by Mr Said, subject only to the vice-chancellor's approval. Powell's disclosure on the Lord's register of interests shows him as an adviser to BAE in , alongside his role as a member of the Thales UK advisory board and chairman of Rolls Royce international advisory board.

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In October The Sunday Times alleged that BAE Systems had "used a bank account implicated in a global bribery investigation to pay consultancy fees to British establishment figures who acted as advisers to BAE businesses, including a former prime ministerial aide, army chief and cabinet minister". This article is part of the Revolving Door project of Spinwatch.


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