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There's the small matter of his Dad, a former editor of The Times, having written a book about how to profit from disaster capitalism.
The apple didn't fall from the tree
This is what people not from the UK (and a fair few who are) always fail to recognise: the Upper Class are engaged in economic war against everyone else, their goal is to maintain a local hegemony and they have been doing this continuously since at least the 11th Century.
A revolution would be glorious.
Lol
That's something, I guess. Maybe we wouldn't know specifically how he took advantage of it because the trades aren't public record.