{"id":19487,"date":"2023-05-04T23:04:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/sir-richard-branson-on-painful-virgin-coverage-during-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T23:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:04:42","slug":"sir-richard-branson-on-painful-virgin-coverage-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/sir-richard-branson-on-painful-virgin-coverage-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Richard Branson on &#8216;painful&#8217; virgin coverage during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <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><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>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. Virgin reportedly asked the government for a \u00a3500m bailout, which drew criticism due to Sir Richard&#8217;s personal wealth. The government refused the loan but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[9441,6256,8902,116,4205,1562,8340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19489,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19487\/revisions\/19489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}