Sentences with phrase «ukip donor»

Robin Brant has also spoken to the Ukip donor Arron Banks about the Farage / O» Flynn row.

During the referendum he was a Eurosceptic but chose to ally himself with the Grassroots Out group linked to Ukip donor Arron Banks.

Arron Banks, the former UKIP donor who bankrolled the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, is making a move into the media sector by backing an anti-establishment news website.

While Vote Leave is the official Brexit campaign group backed by Boris Johnson and other senior Eurosceptic Tories such as Michael Gove and Liam Fox, Leave.EU is endorsed by Ukip and was founded by Banks, a businessman and Ukip donor.

The new Westmonster website launched by Ukip donor Arron Banks has started life by lapping up comments made by top Brexiteer Liam Fox and giving top billing to Nigel Farage.

The group is bankrolled by Conservative - turned - Ukip donor Aaron Banks and was launched by Nigel Farage at Ukip's 2014 conference.

Then Ukip donor Arron Banks suggested in tweet that Reckless's resignation statement might have been penned by Carswell and Ukip MEP Daniel Hannan.

This was evident when Farage and the millionaire UKIP donor Arron Banks called for the party's sole representative in the House of Commons, Douglas Carswell, to be sacked from the party.

Of course, polling conducted for political parties should be treated with a medium sized ocean of salt until you've see the tables with your own eyes (I'll put up a link once Survation put the tabs up (UPDATE: here)-RRB-, but the previous Survation polls for UKIP donor Alan Bown have used their standard methodology.

The Ukip donor told Radio 4's Today programme: «We're struggling at the moment, there's no point in denying it — I think I've backed something like two or three different leaders in the space of three months.

And he cited struggles with fundraising - despite having been backed by the wealthy Ukip donor Arron Banks.

The Conservative - turned - Ukip donor said: «You have to feel sorry for old Jez, really.

From his boat, Farage - flanked by supporters including Ukip donor Arron Banks and Labour MP Kate Hoey - refused to hit back at Geldof.

Former Ukip donor Aaron Banks made much the same point, portraying the country as out of control due to immigration.

Similarly, the Ukip donor and Leave.EU founder, Arron Banks, said Rogers had been «far too much of a pessimist» about Brexit.

Former Tory treasurers and major Ukip donors among those contributing heavily to leave campaign, official figures show

Conservative - supporting hedge fund managers and major Ukip donors dominate the contributions to the campaign to persuade people to vote for Britain to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum.

Not exact matches

London MEP Batten has promised to make Ukip a populist force and win back donors for the cash - strapped party.

At one point Ukip treasurer and former Tory donor Stuart Wheeler told the audience that women's low representation on company boards was justified due to their poor performance at chess and bridge.

Farage was today defended by leading donor Aaron Banks who attacked the «little clique» who had turned on the Ukip leader.

Lucas said Farage was a «very effective communicator» but denied the Green party had failed by comparison because the Greens lacked the financial backing by wealthy donors enjoyed by Ukip.

His comments were soon followed by calls from one of Ukip's biggest donors Stuart Wheeler for Farage to stand down.

The group narrowly lost out in its bid to become the official Leave campaign and is closely associated with UKIP and Arron Banks, the party's biggest donor.

The four candidates vying for control of Ukip have been blasted by its biggest donor, who questioned whether it was «all over» for the party.

The Brexit campaign's biggest financial donor has said he is considering backing a new political party taking in members of Ukip, Labour and the Conservatives.

Arron Banks, Ukip's largest donor, says trying to gauge any change in public opinion since MP's death is «not very controversial»

This year, Ukip has attracted a number of high - profile backers including former Tory donors Paul Sykes and Arron Banks as well as the newspaper proprietor Richard Desmond.

Ukip's booming donor base comes as it consistently attracts more than 12 % of voters.

Until recently, Banks was a Tory donor, but after becoming «very disenchanted» with David Cameron in 2014, he switched and gave # 1m to Ukip.

A new cross-party campaign aimed at taking the UK out of the European Union is being launched with Conservative, Labour and UKIP MPs and donors.

UKIP's Douglas Carswell and Labour's Kate Hoey are on board, alongside the likes of former UKIP treasurer Stuart Wheeler, former Tory treasurer Peter Cruddas and Labour's largest private donor John Mills.

A myth which serves Ukip well as it conveniently distracts from the fact that this party, which claims to be anti-establishment, takes money from millionaire donors while lobbying for tax cuts for bankers.

The interim Ukip leader boasted to the room of donors, tax exiles and newspaper barons, that his movement was now on the march.

Two of the party's biggest donors have threatened to defect to Ukip.

The latest survey by Lord Ashcroft, a Conservative peer and former donor, found Ukip has a 32 - point lead on the Conservatives in the Essex constituency.

Before Farage's resignation, one of UKIP's key donors, Arron Banks, hinted that he would create a brand new political party capitalising on the Leave momentum.

Many academics, donors and activists have been turning to other parties including UKIP.

The group will have three treasurers from across the board: the spread - betting millionaire Stuart Wheeler, who defected from the Tories to Ukip; the former Tory treasurer Peter Cruddas; and the Labour donor John Mills, who is one of the few links with the no side in the 1975 EEC referendum.

UKIP have announced a donation of one million pounds from former Conservative Party donor Aaron Banks.

Iain Dale argues that Stuart Wheeler should be expelled from the Conservative Party for supporting UKIP's European Elections campaign but a Tory spokesman, quoted on Radio 4's 8 am news bulletin, says that there are «no plans» to remove the Tory donor from the party's membership list.

If he votes UKIP, then his association with the Conservatives will be at an end; but he will always have been a donor.

Former Tory party donor and insurance businessman Aaron Banks said that he increased his donation to Ukip from # 100,000 to # 1 million after allegations that former Conservative Foreign Secretary William Hague called him «a nobody».

Mr Wigmore is the right hand man of insurance tycoon Arron Banks, who bankrolled the Leave.EU campaign and was a major donor to Ukip.

All three major parties have nominated «big donors» to the Lords, and even Nigel Farage — who has been unable to appoint new peers — has rued what limits Ukip's fundraising efforts: «They [other parties] can give out peerages; we can't.

Arron Banks, a former donor to the party, made the comment after he withdrew his application to be Ukip's candidate in Clacton for June's general election

WHAT IT FOUND: Analysis of polling by the Tory donor, known for his love of polls, claimed the Tories could win a majority of up to 172 seats over Labour as UKIP collapses and the party struggles to win over centrist votes.

Partly because of a huge Tory donor - funded no campaign: more fool them, as AV would have helped see off Ukip.

Wheeler, a former Tory donor who gave # 5.5 m to the Conservatives in 2001 before being expelled for also donating to Ukip, responds: «I could not agree more strongly that some people will have to get off their hobby - horses.»

Mr Farage spoke to the BBC on the second day of the UKIP conference in Margate, Kent to address rumours he was seriously ill after party donors rang him to express alarm.