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On the morning of March 29 2022, Captain Guy Booth was working aboard Phi, a 192ft aquamarine superyacht moored in London’s Canary Wharf, when he heard a commotion below. Down on the pier a car had pulled up and Grant Shapps, then the UK’s transport secretary, emerged from the vehicle, followed by a retinue of aides. “The first thing we saw was his entourage, several men and women carrying clipboards and make-up and hairbrushes,” says Booth. Shapps and his team then began to shoot a video for…
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