{"id":82761,"date":"2024-06-27T19:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/former-newcastle-united-owner-sir-john-hall-backs-reform\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T19:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:06:22","slug":"former-newcastle-united-owner-sir-john-hall-backs-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/former-newcastle-united-owner-sir-john-hall-backs-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Newcastle United owner Sir John Hall backs Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Newcastle United owner Sir John Hall has announced he is endorsing the Reform party in the general election.<\/p>\n

The long-time Conservative donor was speaking at a rally in Houghton-le-Spring near Sunderland, led by Reform leader Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n

Sir John told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS)<\/a> he was “white and proud of it” and was backing the party because he did not want to see his country’s culture “destroyed”.<\/p>\n

The Conservative Party has declined to comment. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party have been approached for a response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Farage wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “It says a lot when a man like Sir John Hall, after decades of public support for the Conservative Party, is now supporting Reform UK. <\/p>\n

“We are delighted to have him.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sir John is believed to have donated more than \u00a3500,000 to the party in previous years but they had “let me down”.<\/p>\n

He said he would be donating to Reform but would not say how much.<\/p>\n

The 91-year-old said it was the “only party who will protect and save my English culture”.<\/p>\n

He had “fought for diversity and equality in this region” but felt like a “stranger in my own land”, he added.<\/p>\n

The property developer founded the Gateshead Metrocentre, which opened in 1986, and took over Newcastle United in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

He said: “I’m white, I am proud of it and I am not going to go away from it.<\/p>\n

“I want to see my culture kept in this country and not destroyed.<\/p>\n

“That is why I am voting for Nigel \u2013 there is nobody else.”<\/p>\n

Reform has been approached for comment on Sir John’s remarks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n