What does George Galloway think about Brexit? Everything new Rochdale MP has said about UK leaving EU
04/03/2024
George Galloway has supported Brexit in two different referendum campaigns.
The multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks has lost his libel action against the Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr, in a significant decision for public interest journalism.
MI5 had evidence that Arron Banks ‘ordered surveillance’ of information commissioner, MP claims in Commons
22/01/2022
Labour MP alleges Elizabeth Denham was warned by counter-terrorism officers and that ‘her office had to be swept’.
"Very desperate or very stupid, or both," wrote one person in response.
Banks is suing Guardian journalist for defamation over Brexit backer’s ‘covert relationship’ with Russia.
Nearly 50,000 internet domain names belonging to UK businesses and citizens have been taken down this week following the revocation of their .eu domain names.
In the 31 days since Brexit was signed, sealed and delivered we’ve seen no end of complaints and ‘red-tape’ measures imposed upon traders and customers who deal with Europe, which hasn’t been helped by the coronavirus pandemic.
Leave.EU switched registration to Republic of Ireland to avoid losing EU domain name.
Error message greets visitors to site registered in name of Irish businessman who claims he does not know campaign group.
Neale Richmond demands inquiry on how Brexit campaign group obtained domain name reserved for EU citizens.
Campaign migrates registered office for its website so it can retain .eu internet address.
Even Leave voters were appalled at the reaction the unofficial Leave campaign has had on the decision of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to step back from senior royal duties.
Arron Banks has apologised after Leave.EU tweeted a xenophobic meme of Angela Merkel that invoked Britain’s world war victories to target the German chancellor.
The picture of Ms Merkel carried the caption, 'We didn't win two world wars to be pushed around by a Kraut'.
Leave campaigner Arron Banks facing criminal investigation over Brexit referendum funding
28/09/2019
The Electoral Commission said it had grounds to believe 'a number of criminal offences may have been committed' during the campaign.
World4Brexit, registered in Michigan for tax purposes, is reportedly expected to get "informal advice" from Steve Bannon.
UK-based owners of .eu domains could use transfer loophole to keep name.
Legal threat comes as campaigners warn UK government that courts are being used to intimidate journalists.
Tory members in justice secretary’s South West Hertfordshire constituency reject motion.
Observer's Carole Cadwalladr vows to fight 'meritless' latest legal threat from Brexit campaign donor Arron Banks
24/06/2019
Cadwalladr has spent the past two years investigating the Leave.EU co-founder as part of her work exposing the harvesting of millions of Facebook users’ data by the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica and the wider impact of technology misuse on democracy, including in the 2016 EU referendum.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt risk making Tory party unelectable if they allow no deal, poll suggests
22/06/2019
New survey suggests many traditional Tories would turn away from leader if UK crashes out of Europe.
Legal bid driven by concerns that process had been halted by ‘political sensitivities’. / A group including three MPs has begun a legal bid to challenge police over delays to the investigation into alleged offences by leave campaigners in the Brexit referendum.
Nigel Farage received £450,000 from the founder of pro-Brexit group Leave.EU in the year after the Brexit referendum. / Items paid for by Arron Banks included Mr Farage's London home, his car and trips to the US to meet Donald Trump.