The British newspaper Mail on Sunday claims that a number of British ministers sent Prime Minister Theresa May an ultimatum about the Brexit talks, which was assisted by Schenker Singham, a senior official at the analytical center of the Legatum Institute, founded by a businessman who worked with Gazprom in the 1990s.
“The director of economic issues of the organization, Schenker Singham, was the” third person “who drafted an ultimatum (British Foreign Minister Boris) Johnson and (Environment Minister Michael) Gove, which the newspaper wrote last month,” the newspaper writes.
According to the newspaper, the ministers sent a “secret letter” to the prime minister demanding to take a tougher stance in the negotiations with the EU on the country’s exit from the European bloc.
The founder of the Legatum Institute, according to the publication, was Christopher Chandler.
In the 90s, the company Sovereign Global, which he ran together with his brother Richard, cooperated with the Russian “Gazprom”. According to the journal Institutional Investor, in February 1998, the brothers “invested almost a billion dollars in the purchase of just under 5% of Gazprom.”
The official representative of the analytical center told the newspaper that the organization is not involved in the drafting of the document sent by May. He also denied Christopher Chandler’s involvement.
Negotiations on the conditions for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU have been going on since the summer, their main topics are the rights of citizens of “divorce” regions, the Irish border and the settlement of the financial obligations of the United Kingdom to the EU.
While there is not sufficient progress in these negotiations, the EU does not want to move to the second phase: discussing the structure of the future partnership of the European Union with the UK, as well as a possible transition period in relations.
The UK must leave the EU on March 29, 2019 – exactly two years after the Brexit launch, for which the British voted in a referendum in June 2016.
The negotiations between London and Brussels that have been going on since the summer have not led to progress yet, however British Prime Minister Theresa May says that the process will accelerate in December.
