Sentences with phrase «vote leave campaign»

Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who was co-chair of the Vote Leave campaign, insisted the referendum result must be respected.

They allege that the official Vote Leave campaign circumvented spending limits by donating 625,000 pounds ($ 888,000) to the pro-Brexit student group BeLeave but sending the money directly to campaign consultant AggregateIQ.

He said that Stephen Parkinson, former head of the Vote Leave campaign's grassroots organisation, was involved in funnelling money into a youth wing called BeLeave, while still directing how the money was spent.

A Canadian company with links to Cambridge Analytica, AIQ was involved in the Vote Leave campaign, receiving money from the former and another organisation known as BeLeave, as well as Veterans For Britain and the DUP in Northern Ireland.

The journalist who carried out an investigation that links the Vote Leave campaign with Cambridge Analytica - the firm embroiled in a storm over claims it exploited the data of Facebook users - has been accused of looking for a conspiracy where there wasn't one.

But in advance of more allegations expected to emerge in the next 48 hours, the former campaign chief, Dominic Cummings, has written in huge detail about the accusations they are facing, providing documents that appear to suggest the key whistleblower, Chris Wylie, actually tried to sell his services to the Vote Leave campaign but was rejected.

Dear Dom, The Guardian & Observer news team is considering publishing articles that will report that the Vote Leave campaign established the BeLeave campaign as an independent entity with the aim of using it to channel extra spending on the Brexit referendum.

A whistleblower who worked for the official Vote Leave campaign has broken cover to raise concerns that the masterminds behind the 2016 vote — including key figures now working for Theresa May in Downing Street — may have flouted referendum spending rules and then attempted to destroy evidence.

Channel 4 News can also reveal that Sanni went to the Electoral Commission with two other pro-Brexit friends on Thursday, who say they helped the Vote Leave campaign two years ago.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign, also denied any wrongdoing, tweeting a denial.

Reports also surfaced detailing AIQ's alleged ties to Cambridge Analytica, and to the U.K.'s Vote Leave campaign during the Brexit referendum.

The money paid to AggregateIQ for online advertising produced few results for BeLeave — 1,164 email sign - ups and 1,005 mobile phone numbers for more than $ 900,000 — leading Mr. Sanni to suspect the money may have gone to promote the larger Vote Leave campaign instead.

At about the same time, the leaders of the Vote Leave campaign instructed their lawyers to draw up a charter for BeLeave to become an independent group.

After the referendum, Cummings stated on AIQ's website: «Without a doubt, the Vote Leave campaign owes a great deal of its success to the work of Aggregate IQ.

Grimes also said Anthony Clarke, the pro-Brexit donor who gave him # 50,000 — the day before Clarke gave # 40,000 to the main Vote Leave campaign — had approached him directly to offer the money.

By mid-May, however, with the referendum little more than a month away, the Vote Leave campaign was nearing its spending cap.

Canadian analytics firm AggregateIQ, which worked for the victorious Vote Leave campaign in the Brexit vote, has been suspended from Facebook, the company said Friday.

Previously, it had said: «Without a doubt, the Vote Leave campaign owes a great deal of its success to the work of AggregateIQ.

Facebook has suspended the Canadian data firm with which the official Vote Leave campaign spent 40 % of its budget, as the Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to unfold.

And Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a key figure in the Vote Leave campaign, has claimed that the allegations are «ludicrous» and that the Leave campaign won the poll «fair and square and legally».

27 March 2018 Chris Wylie's claims center around the official Vote Leave campaign and its links to a group called BeLeave, which it helped fund.

British - based Cambridge Analytica also has ties to Canadian data company AggregateIQ, which allegedly received money from the Vote Leave campaign ahead of the Brexit referendum.

In an interview on Monday, Shahmir Sanni, a former volunteer for Vote Leave campaign, told The Globe and Mail that he had «first - hand knowledge about the alleged wrongdoing in the Brexit campaign.»

The Vote Leave campaign spent 40 percent of its budget with Canada's AggregateIQ as it pushed the pro-Brexit side of the EU referendum.

Britain's Electoral Commission says the pro-Brexit Vote Leave campaign hired AggregateIQ for political work tied to the referendum.

Former CA employee Christopher Wylie claimed that he helped set up the company and his lawyers have said it received a payment from the Vote Leave campaign in a way that exceeded spending limits.

Until earlier this week, AIQ's website proudly showed a quote from the Vote Leave campaign director saying «we couldn't have done it without them.»

All Out War, Tim Shipman's account of the EU Referendum campaign, has been described by Dominic Cummings, the Vote Leave Campaign director, as «by far the best and he is the only one to have spoken to key people» (9 January 2017, Dominic Cummings's blog).

«Nigel Lawson named chairman of Vote Leave campaign,» The Guardian, February 3, 2016.

«Our Brexit opinions might not have been the same [Ms Stuart was chair of the victorious Vote Leave campaign] but she was an excellent constituent MP.»

As a supporter of the Vote Leave campaign in the run up to the EU referendum, he will also be hoping to pick up a large percentage of the 5,950 Ukip voters from 2015.

The justice secretary, one of the prime minister's closest political friends, posed for for a photo with his cabinet colleagues at the headquarters of the Vote Leave campaign group shortly after a rare Saturday cabinet meeting.

Theresa May is on the verge of offering a job to the former head of the Vote Leave campaign in a bid to revitalise the her party's fortunes.

Mr Gove and Mr Johnson are arguably the two most senior Conservative politicians in the Vote Leave campaign and today's intervention marks their most direct challenge to the Prime Minister in the run - up to the EU referendum.

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the leaders of the Vote Leave campaign, were keeping a low profile as speculation mounted that David Cameron may quit later today.

But Mr Cummings - who served as campaign manager in the victorious Vote Leave campaign last year - took to Twitter to argue the ECJ and Euratom were governed by separate treaties.

David Jones led the Vote Leave campaign in Wales and will now assist David Davis in negotiation to leave the EU.

openDemocracy contacted the DUP, the official Vote Leave campaign, and Aaron Banks» Leave.EU to ask about the source of the Brexit campaign funds.

Hours before the Observer published fresh, damaging allegations about how the various pro-Brexit campaigns colluded, possibly illegally, in the weeks before the UK's knife - edge EU referendum, Vote Leave Campaign Director Dominic Cummings published a long screed of pre-emptive defence on his blog.

Facebook has suspended the Canadian data company Aggregate IQ, which worked for the Vote Leave campaign during the EU referendum.

Matthew Elliott, head of the Vote Leave campaign, has responded to the news that an academic has asked the Crown Prosecution Service to take it to court for misleading voters during the referendum campaign.

Director of the Vote Leave campaign Stephen Parkinson said: «The Chancellor's own independent experts have delivered a damning verdict on the Government's plans to try to negotiate a deal which will limit EU migration.

Robert Oxley, a spokesman for the Vote Leave campaign, said: Tony Blair's record on the EU was a disaster.

During his Commons statement Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, and a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign, repeatedly said that Labour would not be able to implement its plans to nationalise the railways under EU rules.

The commission is currently investigating the official Vote Leave campaign's activities during the referendum.

Johnson, who was heckled in the Commons as he stood to speak, said he wanted to «set on record that the Vote Leave campaign gave exactly this reassurance to people living and working here, and it is very disappointing this should be called into question.

Conservative MP Nigel Evans (left) and UKIP's Paul Nuttall, members of the Vote Leave campaign, celebrate at Manchester Town Hall where the national result in the UK referendum will be declared later

Aside from the official Vote Leave campaign, three affiliated leave campaigns — BeLeave, Veterans for Britain and the Democratic Unionist party — spent a total of # 757,750 with Aggregate IQ.

Over the course of the final few weeks of the referendum, the Electoral Commission Website tells us, Arron Banks» Leave.EU, the official Vote Leave campaign, Grassroots Out, Ukip and the Democratic Unionist Party collectively spent over # 800,000 with Soopa Doopa, a branding agency based, you guessed it, in the tiny Cambridgeshire city of Ely.

His onslaught comes as the Vote Leave campaign this week steps up its assault on Mr Cameron's controversial renegotiation in a bid to force it up the agenda.