John Mills

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John Mills is the majority shareholder and chairman of UK household goods company John Mills Limited (JML).

Career

Mills formed John Mills Limited in his basement in 1986 and owns 70percent of the business.[1]

He is also a former Parliamentary candidate, standing twice in the UK in 1974 and for the European Parliament in 1979, a Labour councillor in Camden from 1971 to 2006, deputy chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation form 1985 to 1987

He is currently the secretary of the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign, Labour Economic Policy Group, vice chairman of the Economic Research Council, co-chairman of Business for Britain and chairman of the £ Campaign.[2]

Political donations

Recorded by the Electoral Commission:

Date Name of donor Amount Donated to Subsidiary (parties only)
30/09/2005 John Mills £1,300.00 Labour Party Holborn and St Pancras CLP
01/10/2005 John Mills £500.00 Labour Party Holborn and St Pancras CLP
30/09/2006 John Mills £1,232.00 Labour Party Holborn and St Pancras CLP
31/12/2006 John Mills £800.00 Labour Party Holborn and St Pancras CLP
06/07/2007 John Mills £5,300.00 Labour Party Holborn and St Pancras CLP
31/12/2007 John Mills £1,200.00 Labour Party Holborn and St Pancras CLP
31/12/2008 John Mills £1,200.00 Labour Party Holborn and St Pancras CLP
31/12/2009 John Mills £3,200.00 Labour Party Holborn and St Pancras CLP
23/01/2013 John Mills £1,647,500.00 Labour Party Central Party
05/10/2013 John Mills £2,172.00 Labour Party Central Party
09/06/2014 John Mills £9,172.00 Labour Party Central Party

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The Financial Times reported in March 2015 that Mills has donated a further '“five-figure” donation' in the run up to the 2015 General Election - but 'has warned that the party does not have the money to fight a second contest if there is a hung parliament'.[4]

Education

Family

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Louise Armitstead Rich, private school, Oxford. Meet John Mills, Labour's biggest donor Telegraph, 15 September 2013, accessed 2 March 2015
  2. John Mills Huffington Post, accessed 2 March 2015
  3. Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 2 March 2015
  4. Jim Pickard Labour’s top donor warns on UK election gridlock Financial Times, 9 March 2015, accessed 9 March 2015