Nick Macpherson, former permanent secretary to the Treasury, said Hammond was right to question the political connections of some of the hedge funds with a financial interest in no deal.
Does the sentence above mean that some prominent headge-fund people and some politicians have a mutual financial interest in "no deal"?
It doesn't actually say that the connected politicians have a financial interest.
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It doesn't actually say that the connected politicians have a financial interest.