Judge and Jury Take On the Political Establishment

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IT'S not every day you meet someone who has formed their own political party. And who appears sane on the outside. Still, I have to confess, upon reading that Sir Paul Judge had created a would-be rival to the Tories, Labour and the Lib-Dems, I yawned and thought, "Here we go again, mad tycoon in personal ego boost, shock." So, when I found myself sitting next to Sir Paul at a dinner the other evening, I was prepared to have to stifle considerable doubt and some mirth as he would doubtless drone on about how he wanted to improve the world because he didn't like it and because he had tonnes of money he was in a position to do so...or something to that effect.

To be fair, I've known Judge for years and have always found him to be among the more thoughtful and concerned of businessmen. Born in 1950, educated at Cambridge and Wharton, he worked for Cadbury Schweppes before leading the Pounds 97 million buyout of its Premier Brands food subsidiary in 1985, and selling it for Pounds 310 million just four years later.

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Judge and Jury Take On the Political Establishment

Instead of playing golf for the rest of his life, he gave Pounds 8 million to Cambridge to found the Judge Business School (now seventh in the world rankings), and beca...

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