{"id":36871,"date":"2023-05-04T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/04\/sir-richard-branson-on-painful-virgin-coverage-during-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T07:13:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:13:31","slug":"sir-richard-branson-on-painful-virgin-coverage-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=36871","title":{"rendered":"Sir Richard Branson on &#8216;painful&#8217; virgin coverage during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sir Richard Branson has told the BBC that he has never faced media coverage as &#8220;painful&#8221; as when he attempted to acquire a loan for his Virgin Group during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Virgin reportedly asked the government for a \u00a3500m bailout, which drew criticism due to Sir Richard&#8217;s personal wealth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The government refused the loan but a private rescue deal eventually saw the Virgin Group inject \u00a3200m, with an additional \u00a31bn provided by investors and creditors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-65479696?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sir Richard Branson has told the BBC that he has never faced media coverage as &#8220;painful&#8221; as when he attempted to acquire a loan for his Virgin Group during &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}