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.
A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again, is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
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.
Millionaire Brexit-backing businessman Arron Banks has lost his Court of Appeal fight over a six-figure inheritance tax bill on his donations to Ukip.
Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters – in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation
HMRC says millionaire owes money for inheritance tax liability on Ukip donations.
Downing Street reveals plans for a light show and a cabinet trip to the north as the Big Ben bonging brouhaha rumbles on.
John Sweeney, a BBC investigative reporter, has turned whistleblower and filed a complaint against the corporation with Ofcom, the broadcasting watchdog.
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.
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.
The Brexiters who put their money offshore
09/11/2017
Some of the loudest voices in the debate – many of whom want the UK to be a tax haven – have their own offshore interests.
Channels opened between Downing Street and the Brexit Party. Arron Banks prepared to donate substantial funds to Tories if a pact with Farage put in place
'You’re wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen year old girl, why?'
World4Brexit, registered in Michigan for tax purposes, is reportedly expected to get "informal advice" from Steve Bannon.
New questions have emerged over leaks of confidential UK diplomatic cables criticising Donald Trump after a 19-year-old Brexit activist was revealed to be the person who obtained them.
Legal threat comes as campaigners warn UK government that courts are being used to intimidate journalists.
The committee acted after Channel 4 News revealed how Mr Farage’s lavish lifestyle was funded to the tune of £450,000 by Arron Banks’ companies.
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.
Emma Briant, an academic expert on disinformation at George Washington University, has unearthed new e-mails that appear to reveal the earliest documented role played by Bannon in Brexit.
MPs say latest revelations show Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore may have misled parliament. / A leader of the Leave.EU campaign suggested sending a “message of support” to the Russian ambassador after the then foreign secretary made a speech that was critical of Russia, documents seen by the Observer suggest.