Top hedge fund manager Crispin Odey is looking to enter UK politics in a move that would send one of the City's biggest names into the heart of Westminster.

Odey, an outspoken right-winger who backed Brexit and has previously donated to the Tory Party, UKIP and the Vote Leave campaign, told Financial News he is so unimpressed with the performance of the current political class, he feels compelled to play a bigger part in public office.