In recent weeks the veracity of these statements has been substantially undermined, with leading
Vote Leave campaigners seeking to distance themselves from these statements.
«The leave campaign are trying to perpetrate what I can only describe as a fraud on the British people,» Miliband will say, accusing
Vote Leave campaigners of «trying to disguise themselves in Labour clothes».
A policy similar to the one used by Australia was among the key pledges made by
Vote Leave campaigners such as Boris Johnson ahead of the referendum on June 23 - but the new Prime Minister, appointed after the vote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worked.
Vote Leave campaigners have suggested Britain could withdraw from the EU and remain part of a free - trade area, with tariff - free access to EU markets; but Osborne and Darling argue in their letter that they have not explained how they could strike such a deal.
A pressure group backed by a string of former
Vote Leave campaigners from Michael Gove to Gisela Stuart has claimed that exiting the EU with a «clean Brexit» could save the country # 450m a week.
Another figure that is being repeated by
Vote Leave campaigners is that the UK sends # 350m a week to Brussels.
But now the referendum is over,
Vote Leave campaigners are already pointing out that they never said they would reduce immigration, only that the British people could if they wanted to.
In an earlier interview on the Radio 4 Today programme, she claimed that
Vote Leave campaigners admit in private that their claim about EU membership costing # 350m a week is not true.
Vote Leave campaigners previously expressed outrage that Farage had been invited to put the case for their side in the ITV debate.
It comes as a spat between the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney and a leading
Vote Leave campaigner was made public.
Mr Gove revealed he decided to run late on Wednesday night after coming to the conclusion that fellow
Vote Leave campaigner Mr Johnson could not provide the unity or the leadership to take Britain out of the European Union.
But
Vote Leave campaigner Gisela Stuart said the EU had been a «disaster» for UK workers and noted the high unemployment levels in eurozone states.
Darren Grimes, far left, posing for a photograph with Michael Gove, a leading
Vote Leave campaigner who is now Britain's environment secretary, at the campaign's headquarters in February 2016.
Both groups deny any wrongdoing and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a prominent
Vote Leave campaigner, said the claims were «utterly ludicrous».
Not exact matches
Daniel May - Miller from Christians on the
Left has said that
Vote Leave has got its maths wrong, however Sir Gerald Howarth, a Christian Conservative MP and Out
campaigner, has said that Sarah Woolaston has «misunderstood» the point that Out
campaigners are trying to make.
Soubry also issued a rallying call to young voters to register to
vote in the referendum and to back Remain, with a dig at
Leave campaigners — which she subsequently defended on Twitter.
Some voters and
campaigners argued that
voting Leave would allow the UK to be more global and accept more immigrants from non-EU countries.
Brexit Smith was a Remain
campaigner and after the
vote to
leave he pledged that he would offer a further referendum on the final «Brexit» deal if
voted Labour leader.
The leading Brexit
campaigner and frontrunner to succeed Cameron as Tory leader claimed he was «sad» to hear of Cameron's decision to resign after the UK
voted to
leave the European Union.
There was also a minor disturbance at the speech as Cameron was heckled by Eurosceptic
campaigners, understood to be linked to the
Vote Leave campaign group.
Campaigners who want to
vote to
leave the EU in the promised referendum blasted back at Mr Cameron.
Evidence submitted by
campaigners highlights the fact that all three groups —
Vote Leave, Veterans for Britain and BeLeave — chose to spend their money with the same small data analytics firm, which has a minimal online presence.
«There is significant public interest in being satisfied that the facts are known about
Vote Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other campaigners on the leave side.&r
Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead
campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other
campaigners on the
leave side.&r
leave side.»
Rotherham told openDemocracy that during his time working for
Vote Leave, he «was in touch with a range of Eurosceptic
campaigners, of which VfB [Veterans for Britain] was one group» — which in itself breaks no rules.
Rather,
Vote Leave paid the money directly to his sole «supplier» AggregateIQ, a data analysis company linked to Trump - backer Robert Mercer that is based in small Canadian city, and which
Vote Leave and other pro-Brexit
campaigners spent more than # 3.3 m. Grimes also confirmed that another donation — # 50,000 from
Vote Leave donor Anthony Clarke — was actually paid directly to Aggregate IQ, too.
But legal experts and transparency advocates have questioned the Electoral Commission's interpretation of these laws on
campaigners working together, on the back of the revelations about Darren Grimes and
Vote Leave.
The commission is investigating whether
Vote Leave, the lead campaigner to leave the European Union during the 2016 referendum, breached campaign finance r
Leave, the lead
campaigner to
leave the European Union during the 2016 referendum, breached campaign finance r
leave the European Union during the 2016 referendum, breached campaign finance rules.
In the
Vote Leave submission to the Electoral Commission for designated status as the lead
campaigner, they described Rotherham's job with them as «coordinating with specialist researchers working in parallel for allied think tanks and groups... and maintaining formal and informal outreach across the wider Eurosceptic movement.»
Leave campaigners in Edinburgh the day before the
vote.
The shock value of the «No» campaign's baby unit posters in the Alternative
Vote referendum, or the
Leave campaign's Breaking Point» poster of a long queue of migrants show that, under the current free - for - all,
campaigners find that courting controversy is worthwhile if there are
votes to be won.
Brexit
campaigner Shahmir Sanni told Channel 4 that the British referendum's «
Vote Leave» campaign spent over its legal limit by using the Canadian data firm called Aggregate IQ — adding that the company had links to Cambridge Analytica.
This week's senate
vote to end subsidies for ethanol has
left campaigners worried the renewables sector is next, that tax credits and deductions will be scrapped in favour of the Republican austerity measure to reduce the deficit.
Just before the Brexit
vote I heard a «Vote Leave» campaigner declare how coming out of the European Union meant that employers would be unburdened from red tape citing as an example that they would not have to comply with new data protection requirements about to come out of Bruss
vote I heard a «
Vote Leave» campaigner declare how coming out of the European Union meant that employers would be unburdened from red tape citing as an example that they would not have to comply with new data protection requirements about to come out of Bruss
Vote Leave»
campaigner declare how coming out of the European Union meant that employers would be unburdened from red tape citing as an example that they would not have to comply with new data protection requirements about to come out of Brussels.
Sanni has shared emails with the Observer and the authorities which appear to show the young
campaigners seeking advice from top
Vote Leave figures, an invoice to VoteLeave covering work on the BeLeave campaign and messages from
Vote Leave lawyers and accountants about the practicalities of establishing it as an independent group.
Mr Grimes also received # 50,000 from an individual
Vote Leave donor in the final 10 days, making the previously obscure
campaigner's group one of the best - funded at the referendum.