£34m payday for LSE campaigner

THE billionaire investor behind a vicious spat with the London Stock Exchange trousered £33.9m last year as profits tumbled at his firm.

Sir Chris Hohn’s business is trying to force out LSE chairman Donald Brydon, 72, who is being blamed for pushing out chief executive Xavier Rolet.

Now, accounts for Hohn’s firm, TCI Advisory Services, show its profits more than halved to £26.5m in the year to February 28. The owners shared a £93.9m payout, with the best-paid member – believed to be Hohn’s personal company – collecting £33.9m.

This is far below the £147m he pocketed the previous year.

Hohn, 51, is forcing LSE to hold a shareholder vote on Brydon’s future later this month.