Sir Richard Branson has
said he will put his private Caribbean island up as collateral in his attempt
to persuade the UK government to save his Virgin Atlantic airline from going
bust.
Branson,
who is the UK’s seventh richest person with an estimated
£4.7bn fortune and lives on Necker Island in the tax-free
British Virgin Islands, on Monday promised in a
public blogpost that he would “raise as much money against the
island as possible to save as many jobs as possible.”
Branson,
69, made the pledge as he desperately tried to convince the government to give
his airline a £500m bailout to help it through the “devastating impact this
pandemic continues to have”.........
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