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Britain’s next Rupert Murdoch

London hedge-fund titan Paul Marshall has been “pulling strings behind the scenes at Westminster” for decades, says the Financial Times – positioning himself as a philanthropist, a political donor and an educational reformer. Now the 64-year-old evangelical Christian is being talked up as a media-mogul in waiting. Already the owner of the upstart British broadcaster GB News, and digital media group UnHerd,

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