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were subsequently brought against him. In court in
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In 1993, DFS was floated on the stock market and valued at £271 million, with
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that his donations were not "anything at all like that sort of magnitude", and that the £4m had in fact been a loan to the party from his son
Michael which was repaid a few weeks later. Kirkham gave £200,000 to
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