After this article was published, Mr Malloch made a series of false statements about the Financial Times and defamatory allegations against two of its journalists.
The website BrexitCentral.com published a correction and apology above an amended article that had previously contained some of Mr Mallochs false statements.
However, on 19 February Breitbart.com then published some of the same, and other, false statements by him.
Far from rebutting the FTs reporting, Mr Malloch has failed to justify a number of claims made in his autobiography and the online CV mentioned in our coverage.
Since our reporting, another part of the University of Oxford Wadham College has confirmed Mr Mallochs CV has wrongly claimed he was a Senior Common Room Fellow there, and confirmed: He has never been a Fellow of Wadham College and the role of Senior Common Room Fellow does not exist here.
His dissemination of false facts in his inaccurate article on Breitbart.com is unacceptable, therefore we are setting the record straight. Mr Malloch made a number of false statements about the FT and its journalists, of which some of the most serious are addressed below.
● Various statements he made about his conversation with FT industry editor Peggy Hollinger after he submitted an op-ed article to the Financial Times are false. In fact, Mr Malloch had called FT industry editor Peggy Hollinger (not, as he claimed, vice versa), who made clear she was not responsible for op-eds.
Ms Hollinger did not tell him the comment piece he had offered to the FT would not be published because it was contrary to [FTs] pro-EU policy. The FTs comment sections carry a diverse range of views, including pro-Brexit pieces by contributors such as Ruth Lea, Jacob Rees-Mogg, John Redwood and Nigel Lawson. The FT encourages op-ed submissions via its website. Ms Hollinger did not lecture Mr Malloch and did not say, as claimed, that the EU is the most perfect thing ever invented.
● FT political correspondent Henry Mance did not describe himself as a media writer and did not say he had been told by higher ups to do his reporting on Mr Malloch; the reporting was his own initiative. Mr Malloch never asked Mr Mance if the EU was paying him. Had he asked, Mr Mance would have informed him that of course it was not doing so.
● Mr Mance never offered to show Mr Malloch any text before publication. The Financial Times does not give subjects of news reports the right to review articles prior to publication.
● In his Breitbart piece, Mr Mallochs account of his exchange of questions and answers with Mr Mance in relation to the above article and the news report of 9 February is flawed and embellished.
● Mr Mance asked him about an Emmy nomination, not about an Emmy award. Mr Mallochs claim in his book, that Doing Virtuous Business was nominated, remains incorrect.
● In his book, Mr Malloch states Margaret Thatcher called him a genius and a global sherpa, and specifies the precise moment on stage at a 1992 CNN conference at the start of her speech. That is contradicted by a C-Span video of the event.
● Mr Mallochs Breitbart article confirms the FTs reporting that he was not knighted into the Sovereign Order of St. John by the Queen, Elizabeth II herself as stated in his book.
● His book states he was made a laird by Lord Lyon of Scotland whereas a spokesperson for the Lord Lyon denied this, and the FTs reporting reflected that discrepancy.
● FTs reporting questioned Mr Mallochs claim, in his book, that he finished [his] entire doctoral program in an unprecedented less than three years. Mr Malloch himself has conceded that he completed coursework and oral exams within three years but not his thesis. Mr Malloch never offered to put FT in contact with his thesis examiner, as claimed.
● The New York Times and Washington Post confirmed to the FT that they had no record of Mr Mallochs having written for them. Mr Malloch declined to identify to Mr Mance any specific articles he claims to have written for those news organisations.
● In his Breitbart article Mr Malloch cited correspondence from a Dr Christopher Hancock in support of his claim to have been a fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. However, no such correspondence was received by Mr Mance; in any event, the correspondence does not confirm Mr Mallochs status. The college authorities have denied Mr Malloch was a fellow there.
● Mr Mallochs article also cited an email from Mr H. Skip Weitzen and complained that the FT did not publish it. However, Mr Weitzens account is referenced in Mr Mances article of 10 February.
The FT stands by its reporting and will continue to set the record straight in the face of any further false claims.
