Robert Jenrick faces questions over meeting with Israeli mining heir

Minister met Idan Ofer in 2018 while assessing scheme that posed threat to Ofer’s business

Robert Jenrick is facing new questions over his links to wealthy Conservative donors after it emerged that he met an Israeli businessman with an interest in the future of a multibillion-pound project that the minister was overseeing.

The housing secretary is already under pressure to resign over a disclosure that he “insisted” that a £1bn property development be rushed through so that the Tory donor Richard Desmond’s company could save £45m.

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