Ex-Playboy Rothschild Is Central Character in Corfu Holiday Saga

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ONE OF the most beguiling questions in the Mandelson-Deripaska affair is how did Nat Rothschild become a central figure? The answer is in the way the 37-year-old scion of the banking dynasty does business. Mr Rothschild has enviable contacts, and the Russian tycoon and Britain's new Business Secretary are close to the top of his list.

When they were partying together on Corfu this summer, it was the kind of scene Mr Rothschild adores. Gathered around him was a concentration of power, financial and political, that few could equal. Mr Deripaska is Russia's richest man; Mr Mandelson was a European trade commissioner and, to add to the fun, there was his old friend George Osborne, shadow chancellor and a drinking pal from Oxford days when they were both in the Bullingdon Club.

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Ex-Playboy Rothschild Is Central Character in Corfu Holiday Saga

It would have surprised many, then, to see today that Mr Rothschild had written to The Times to say Mr Osborne had discussed a donation to the Conservative Party from t...

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