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Yesterday the Daily Express told how the Duke of Wellington, ringleader among the aristocracy in the battle against Brexit, receives thousands of pounds of annual handouts from Brussels for his 7,000-acre Hampshire estate.

Now it can be revealed that Lord Heseltine, who supported all four anti-Brexit amendments in the Lords on Tuesday, has also been a beneficiary of EU largesse.

Michael Heseltine, 85, has amassed a fortune estimated at £300million largely through his Haymarket publishing empire.

He and his wife Lady Anne bought Thenford House, a then overgrown estate on the Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire border which included 400 acres of land and a small village, in 1976.