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He added some of the money being invested in AI would "probably be lost".

Mr Donald said he subsequently made numerous unsuccessful efforts to retrieve the money from Gavin and had been unable to get a response from his former landlord on many occasions.

“Someone might see that and think that it’s real, oh, that person actually got paid that amount of money. This is actually on like news, when that may not be the case,” he said.

In the book, which has been quoted by the Telegraph, Sir Lenny writes: "All black British people... need reparations for slavery," adding that "we personally deserve money for the effects of slavery".

Badenoch insisted she could meet this promise, with the money to come from some of the £47bn in planned savings from the welfare budget and foreign aid, announced earlier this week.