Sentences with phrase «brexit leave campaign»

The company was — depending on what you read — either integral to the Brexit leave campaign and Donald Trump's surprise presidential victory, or selling snake oil that both parties (and others) willfully swallowed.

CA was contracted by Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and the Brexit Leave campaign, in 2016.

This approach, willful or not, has led to its latest scandal, where a previously available API for app developers was harnessed by Trump and Brexit Leave campaign technology provider Cambridge Analytica to pull not just the profile data of 270,000 app users who gave express permission, but of 50 million of those people's unwitting friends.

Christopher Wylie, the 28 - year - old man who both founded and blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica, the data - analytics firm that played an important role in Trump's 2016 campaign and the Brexit Leave campaign, had his Facebook account disabled on Sunday.

For more than a year we've been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the UK and Team Trump in the US presidential election.

For more than a year we've been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the UK and Team Trump in the US presidential election.

Not exact matches

LONDON — The Brexit campaign's promise that leaving the European Union will mean more funding for the NHS must be honoured or people will lose trust in politics, the head of NHS England is set to say today.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health SerLeave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Serleave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

In the run - up to the Brexit vote, the easy parallel to make from an American point of view is that the Leave camp shared many similarities with the Trump campaign.

One of the points made repeatedly by the Leave campaign for Brexit was that EU bureaucracy was hampering economic relations with emerging economies such as India and China.

This user data was supposedly used to build user profiles and target Facebook users in the Trump and Leave Brexit campaigns.

Cambridge Analytica also worked with the British political operation that successfully campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union in the 2016 «Brexit» referendum.

More recently, The Anger Machine has been in a similar fulminating swivet over the suggestion by some observers of the recent British «Brexit» vote that, um, a certain lack of tolerance may have played a role in the Leave side's campaign.

So when they released a report last month suggesting that claims by the Leave campaign were misleading and that Brexit would probably cause a big hit to the UK economy, lots of people paid attention.

A part of the Brexit campaign was aiming at leaving the EU control but not the single market as economists warned about the risks of losing the EU trade deal.

Paying any money at all to the EU will be unpopular, especially in the wake of false promises by the Leave campaign about money saved by Brexit.

Once upon a time Vote Leave were going to be the professional, mainstream, positive Brexit campaign.

The former London Mayor unveiled the # 400,000 giant Vote Leave campaign bus as he kicked off his nationwide tour urging voters to back Brexit in Truro, Cornwall this morning.

Last month, the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union revealed that former cricket player Ian Botham backed Brexit.

Benedict Cumberbatch is to play Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings in a new television drama about the Brexit referendum.

The Channel 4... Benedict Cumberbatch is to play Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings in a new television drama about the Brexit referendum.

Although just 10 Labour MPs and 138 Tory MPs supported the leave campaign; now, following the outcome of the referendum, a majority of MPs in both main parties favour Brexit.

Brexit campaign Vote Leave immediately put out a statement from Ernest Gove saying that his business «closed as a result» of the damage caused by the EU to Scotland's fishing industry.

Well, part of the suspicion and speculation around that story has touched on the edges of Vote Leave, the official Brexit campaign that was backed by cabinet ministers, that masterminded the EU referendum victory.

In a separate development, Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica's former business development director, has told the Guardian the firm carried out data analysis for Leave.EU, the rival Brexit campaign to Vote Leave that was fronted by Nigel Farage.

The main theme of the party's campaign was opposition to the manner of the government opting for a hard Brexit in leaving the European Union.

Just over a year ago, the Brexit referendum returned a Leave vote after a campaign based on the notion of parliamentary sovereignty.

With that in mind, he happily bankrolled the Leave EU campaign and waged a violent and unconventional political campaign against both the remain political establishment and the so - called posh boys of Brexit including Daniel Hannan and Douglas Carswell.

The more respectable parts of the Brexit programme, such as the ministers in government who campaigned for Vote Leave, would never repeat his slurs and nor would they think them privately.

As the Chairman of the Fresh Start Group of Conservative MP and leading Leave campaigner he continues to campaign to get the best deal for Britain post Brexit.

Dominic Cummings, the campaign director of Vote Leave, has made few public announcements since the Brexit referendum but he did say this: «If you want to make big improvements in communication, my advice is — hire physicists.»

Chris Grayling, the leader of the Commons who is campaigning for Britain to leave the EU, has just told the BBC's Sunday Politics that if Britain votes for Brexit, David Cameron should remain as prime minister.

Leave.EU received # 3.2 m from a single donor, Peter Hargreaves, while Vote Leave, the designated Brexit campaign, received # 2.79 m and Grassroots Out received # 2.01 m from various donors.

The Vote Leave campaign promised Brexit would allow Britain to «take back control» of immigration.

It is the third group campaigning for Brexit, joining Vote Leave and Leave.EU.

The Leave campaign does not have a monopoly over the psychological forces at play over Brexit.

On the Conservative side of things, after the short - term honeymoon for Theresa May, it is inevitable that a clash will eventually occur between the proper Brexiteers who campaigned for Leave and those that hold a softer, watered - down Brexit position within the Conservative Party, and who would be quite happy for us to maintain open borders and remain in the single market.

We saw a similar pattern in the final phase of the Brexit referendum, when the official Leave campaign made the claim that # 350m per week would be ploughed back into the NHS.

I sit down with Gove to discuss the state of the referendum campaign just hours after Cameron warned that a vote to leave the EU could risk war on the continent — a remark which sparked yet another round of Brexit indignation and accusations of scaremongering.

The attempt to unseat Jeremy Corbyn in the aftermath of Brexit was unforgivably irresponsible and effectively let the government and the Leave campaign off the hook.

Last week the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union got a boost of sorts as former cricket player Ian Botham backed Brexit.

Ex-Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie alleges AIQ was given 40 % of Vote Leave's budget to create «digital and social targeting» for the Brexit referendum campaign.

It is also claimed that campaign chiefs at Vote Leave - the official pro Brexit campaign group - may have broken the law in the campaign.

Peter Hargreaves, the billionaire investor who helped fund the Leave campaign, welcomed his comments and said it exposed the «scaremongering» of the vocal Remain camp claiming Brexit would drive foreign investors away.

Having spent the first part of the campaign seeing the pro-Remain message they badly need voters to hear — that Brexit represents a risk the NHS can't afford to take, that a Leave vote would trigger further austerity — drowned out by Conservative in - fighting, Britain Stronger In Europe might decide, as David Lloyd George once quipped, that «a change of nuisance is as good as holiday».

Asked whether the Conservative party can stick together following an attack by Sir John Major on what the former prime minister called the Leave campaign's «squalid» and «deceitful» Brexit campaign, Gove said: «Whatever the result we will respect the democratic verdict, the British people will have spoken.»

Nigel Farage is not part of the official Vote Leave campaign, having backed rival Brexit group Grassroots Out.

Of course, this has left me wondering if that was unexpected at all, since part of the Brexit campaign was based on aggressive attempts to demonize foreigners and present them as a danger1.

@Layna When it comes to Brexit, the current UK government - despite being a single - party administration - is effectively a coalition of people who campaigned for Remain and people who campaigned for Leave.

In his first major intervention in the Brexit debate, the former Lib Dem leader argued that senior figures in the Leave campaign were trying to «distort their way to victory».