Nigel Farage is expected to meet Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire industrialist and founder of Ineos, before Christmas as Reform UK accelerates efforts to build relationships with major British business figures.
Ratcliffe, who co-owns Manchester United and is among the UK’s richest individuals with an estimated fortune of £23.5 billion, confirmed that Farage had requested the meeting during an interview for The Business, a new podcast by The Times.
The Ineos chairman, known for his outspoken views on energy policy, has been one of the most vocal critics of Britain’s net zero targets, describing plans to eliminate fossil fuels from the electricity grid by 2030 as “absurd”.
He warned that the combined impact of high energy costs, carbon taxes, and cheap Chinese imports was “crippling” Europe’s chemical industry and putting up to one million direct jobs at risk.
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