🏛️ Politics 3d ago · Will Dunn

When a foreign billionaire sacks British workers, the taxpayer gets the bill

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Among the assets of the 39-year-old billionaire William Bruce Harrison are a former racecourse, an 83,000-acre ranch and 19 mountains. Until 2024, Harrison, the son of a Texas oil dynasty, was also the ultimate beneficial owner of a construction company, ISG. The firm was a major supplier to the British state, working on everything from courts and hospitals to the House of Commons; its government contracts paid out £1.85bn over a decade. 



In September 2024, ISG collapsed into administration,

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