Katie Hopkins tries to avoid bankruptcy by applying for insolvency agreement

Katie Hopkins the controversial commentator who was famous for saying that 'poor people in debt have no one else to blame but themselves' has applied for an insolvency agreement. Katie has been involved in a costly liable case involving the food writer Jack Monroe. 

 

Katie, the right winged broadcaster sent tweets in 2015 which falsely implied that Monroe backed the defacement of war memorials by protesters. Last year she was ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages and legal costs. 

 

As a result her mainstream media career collapsed. She parted ways with Mail Online, for whom she had written a regular column, in late 2017, only a few months after losing her LBC radio show when she called for a "final solution" in response to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack. She now works for the far-right Canadian outlet Rebel Media.

 

Apparently, Monroe originally asked for Hopkins to apologise and donate £5,000 to a migrants' charity or she would sue. But Hopkins – who had confused Monroe with the columnist Laurie Penny – refused to back down, resulting in a costly court case, with the commentator forced to pay £24,000 in damages and a substantially larger sum in legal costs.

 

Hopkins applied for an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) in May, a filing on the Individual Insolvency Register shows. 

 

Monroe told the Guardian that the agreement, which will allow Hopkins to avoid bankruptcy and manage the long-term repayment of her debts, was recently formally agreed following discussion with creditors.

 

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