John Caudwell was born on 7 October 1952 in Birmingham, England. Originally from the Midlands, his family moved and settled in Stoke-on-Trent in north Staffordshire, an area which has always battled with economic and social challenges. He was just six years old when he made a promise to himself that he would make enough money to give huge sums of it away to help his family and others who were struggling with poverty. What really concerns me is this sleaze issue and him not standing firmly enough against what’s gone on,” he told the Observer. “I was unbelievably disappointed when I heard him almost defending and ... trying to find an out for Owen Paterson. [However,] I like him as a charismatic leader. It’s a very, very positive thing to have somebody who feels down to earth, so I like Boris from that point of view.

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New engines for Formula 1 H2O powerboats". Motorboat & Yachting. 27 February 2012 . Retrieved 19 November 2014. And speculating in property, albeit not a caravan, has proven to be a launch pad for Caudwell throughout his career.Ex-partner of John Caudwell reveals she had 18-month 'on-off relationship' with tragic Darius Campbell Danesh Caudwell was married to Kate McFarlane for 25 years. The couple divorced in 2001, and they had three children. [7] [28] He then had a brief relationship [29] with violinist Jane Burgess, with whom he had a daughter. [7] [30] He was then in a long-term relationship with former model Claire Johnson for 15 years, with whom he has a son. [7] [30] [31] They separated in 2014. [28] His intuition was right, and with a bit of capital beneath him, Caudwell established himself as a secondhand-car dealer in the 1980s. In 1986 Caudwell entered the burgeoning mobile phone game, running the new business alongside his car dealership. The day leading up to the raid had been perfectly normal in so far as any day can be described as 'normal' for one of the UK's richest men. I always move on,” he said. “That’s right from the day I stopped getting involved in cars. Once, I knew every light unit on every car and every badge. I could have told you what any car was from 100 metres. Now I couldn't tell you the difference between a Vauxhall and a BMW. I know nothing. Zero.

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I’ve not been extremely complimentary about the Conservative party these last two years. But I still believe that it’s the best party to run this country, and I’d be terrified of the Lib Dems getting in and even more terrified of Labour.”

He told the Sun: "It was terrifying having these people in hazmat suits appear every few hours and try to move all of my limbs. There was nothing I could do to stop it, even though I knew they shouldn't do it. We had a battle to move me." In October 2011, he made a "significant" six-figure donation to Middleport Pottery (one of the last working Victorian pot banks in Britain) in Stoke-on-Trent, through the Prince's Regeneration Trust. [14] In October 2012, Caudwell was one of three principal private donors for the London's Bomber Command Memorial Appeal. [15] And no small amount of his intellectual energy nowadays is firmly directed at “Brussels bully boys” and “lily-livered” U.K. politicians. “I don't understand how intelligent people, successful people, can’t see the benefits of being out of Europe,” he says, “I think MPs are disgusting. Really disgusting. This shilly-shallying, I don’t understand [it]. Why don’t they understand that saying we’re going to have a no deal is the best way to get a good deal? You can already see the change in attitude from the EU. They’re trembling.”