- December 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The heir to the JCB digger empire, whose father Lord Bamford is one of Boris Johnson’s biggest financial backers, is locked in a legal battle with a former close friend that has shed fresh light on alleged tensions inside one of the UK’s most powerful industrial families.
The case has also raised questions over the conduct of Jo Bamford, a 43-year-old self-styled “green entrepreneur” who is a director at a key JCB holding company and has now set himself up as an investor in bus manufacturing and hydrogen.
His companies, which includes the doubledecker maker Wrightbus, have won taxpayer-funded contracts worth nearly £80m for zero-emission buses in England and Northern Ireland over the last three years.
The prototype of sustainable fuel-cell hydrogen bus built by Wrightbus, which Jo Bamford chairs. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA
However, Bamford’s business dealings are now under scrutiny by a judge in civil proceedings in the US.
US court filings and…
