WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2020Networking company run by
Johnson’s friend handed £1.4m
of government funds
Ben Elliot runs Quintessentially, a ‘luxury lifestyle’ business (Rex)
ROB MERRICK
DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
A firm run by Boris Johnson’s tennis partner has been paid £1.4m of government cash to help officials
“network” with some of the UK’s richest people, it has been revealed.
Labour has condemned the contract as “a blindingly obvious conflict of interest and a shocking waste of
money” and demanded an investigation.