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edited July 2023 in The Rail



The MP was formerly a board member at the Derbyshire-based family business, which supplies vegetables to caterers, earning a second salary of £93,000 for attending monthly meetings.

Since 2015, he also lived rent-free in the five bedroom country house in Coleorton, Leicestershire, owned by the company, along with his wife Nevena, 42, and son. Bridgen previously owned the property himself but sold it to the family firm for £1.5million in 2012.

Bridgen insisted that he was forced out of his role at AB Produce and has spent years suing the business, The Times reports.




But in a ruling which was revealed last week, a judge evicted Bridgen and ordered him to pay legal costs of £800,000 after finding that he had behaved in an 'abusive', 'arrogant' and 'aggressive' way.

Far from being forced out, Judge Brian Rawlings found that Bridgen had voluntarily stepped down from his board role in order to reduce his maintenance payments to his first wife, Jackie, after their divorce.

Judge Rawlings also found that Bridgen had pressurised a local police inspector to undertake an expensive one-year investigation against his younger brother, making vexatious allegations.




Besides the £800,000 in legal costs to be paid to the three shareholders in AB Produce, Bridgen could also be liable for £244,000 in rent arrears.

Under Parliamentary rules, any MP who receives a bankruptcy restrictions order must step down. Bridgen could also be referred to the Parliamentary commissioner for standards for failing to declare that AB Produce was paying his rent and energy bills.

The MP's Code of Conduct states that all 'taxable expenses, allowances and benefits such as company cars' should be declared, along with 'financial support and sponsorship' and 'gifts of property'.


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