Vote Leave —
the official leave campaign group in the referendum — was entirely separate from Leave.EU, but the data analytics firm Vote Leave used, AIQ, was linked to SCL Elections, the parent company that set up Cambridge Analytica with Robert Mercer's funds.
Jim Waterson at Buzzfeed and Carole Cadwalladr at the Observer had raised concerns about huge donations from
the official Leave campaign to two smaller Leave outfits shortly before the referendum.
But despite knowing that Vote Leave appeared to have contemplated acting unlawfully, the Electoral Commission went ahead and designated it as
the official leave campaign.
Vote Leave,
the official leave campaign, spent # 3.9 m with the company.
All the donations to cover his bills were paid by
the official Leave campaign, Vote Leave, directly to AggregateIQ, the controversial data analytics firm linked to Trump - backer Robert Mercer.
The daft net migration pledge was indeed discussed, and in particular, Gove, who was the chair of
the official Leave campaign, specifically vowed to aim to meet it.
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.
Wigmore's response — that they set up the company because they were trying to secure designation as
the official Leave campaign — was baffling.
The official leave campaign spent # 6.8 m itself and donated # 625,000 to a fashion student's campaign called BeLeave.
Banks is the driving force behind GO's attempt to be designated by the Electoral Commission as
the official leave campaign to contest the referendum.
It was with AggregateIQ that Vote Leave (
the official Leave campaign) chose to spend # 3.9 m, more than half its official # 7m campaign budget.
We know Massingham is a director of a company called AggregateIQ, and that Vote Leave —
the official leave campaign — paid AggregateIQ # 3.5 m to do its profiling and Facebook advertising.
Former defence secretary, Liam Fox, who also campaigned to leave the EU, was given the new job of international trade secretary and Boris Johnson, who was a leader of
the official Leave campaign, is foreign secretary.
Instead, it looks increasingly likely that Vote Leave will become the group to lead
the official Leave campaign.
Earlier, controversy over the poster had prompted Boris Johnson to distance
the official leave campaign from Ukip.
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.
However,
the official Leave campaign were furious about the decision to invite Farage, who is a member of their rival campaign Leave.EU.
Not exact matches
Page, who denied meeting with any sanctioned
officials while he was in Russia, took «a
leave of absence» from the Trump
campaign shortly after the Yahoo report.
Though the president surprised many when he suggested raising the age during a meeting following the Parkland, Fla. shooting that
left 17 dead, this
official plan from the administration lines up more closely with the views of the gun lobby, which spent more than $ 30 million on Trump's presidential
campaign.
Former Trump
campaign official Paul Manafort, center, departs U.S. District Court with his attorney Kevin Downing,
left, on Nov. 2 in Washington.
The floor crossing gutted the
Official Opposition,
left with 5 MLAs and enraged Wildrose supporters, who started a «Recall Danielle»
campaign in her Highwood constituency.
Additionally, in describing one of Saul's
campaigns, the scribe who copied what became the
official modern version inadvertantly skipped over a phrase to another phrase that started with the same words and
left a key explanation out.
After he
left, Matola took part in a
campaign to expand the sanctuary, mentioning it to government
officials at every opportunity.
«ITV has effectively joined the
official IN
campaign,» the Vote
Leave statement said.
Alan Johnson would launch Labour's Euro - referendum
campaign on 1 December, and members who complain about receiving messages from the «
official Labour
leave campaign» should be reassured that there is no such thing.
They will argue that Percoco, who
left government at one point to work on Cuomo's
campaign, wasn't a public
official at the time he received the alleged bribes.
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.
Before the
official campaign,
Leave voters cared most about immigration and Remain voters about the economy, and this changed little up to June 23rd.
Democratic lawmakers were quick to praise the move, which Cuomo had pledged to do back in January during his second State of the State address (and unlike other pledges —
campaign finance reform and a call for independent redistricting — Cuomo actually spoke the words about fingerprinting, rather than
leaving it in the
official statement).
Congressman Michael Grimm slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration for allowing top
officials to take
leave and work on political
campaigns — including that of his opponent — during the city's Ebola scare.
«It's clear the
leave campaigns have deep pockets,» said Will Straw, the executive director of Britain Stronger In Europe, the
official remain
campaign group.
Former Tory treasurers and major Ukip donors among those contributing heavily to
leave campaign,
official figures show
He served as the
Campaign Director of Vote Leave, the official and successful campaign in favour of leaving the European Union for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendu
Campaign Director of Vote
Leave, the
official and successful
campaign in favour of leaving the European Union for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendu
campaign in favour of
leaving the European Union for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016.
But in the race for cash, their
official campaign arm is
leaving the GOP in the dust month in and month out — and email fundraising is the No. 1 reason why.
He is credited with having created the
official slogan of Vote
Leave, «Take back control» and with being the leading strategist of the
campaign.
In the final weeks of the
official Vote
Leave campaign, there was precious little said about «global Britain» and much more about immigration and «taking back control».
There is nothing in election law that prevents former elected
officials from tapping their
campaign cash after they
leave office.
First, and most obviously, there were two camps bidding to be the
official «
leave»
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.
The governor explained that this was an appropriate use of
campaign funds, because sometimes elected
officials get sued when they've
left office.
Stuart, who chaired the
official Vote
Leave campaign in the EU referendum, has not commented on her plans.
Nigel Farage is not part of the
official Vote
Leave campaign, having backed rival Brexit group Grassroots Out.
Back in November 2017, the Electoral Commission reopened investigations into allegations that Vote
Leave, the
official exit
campaign in the 2016 referendum on UK membership of the European Union, had breached spending rules.
It wasn't part of the
official Vote
Leave campaign but it inspired many of the policies on which the
campaign was based.
Lee Reynolds, a DUP staffer in Belfast who took a break from the party to oversee the
official Vote
Leave campaign in Northern Ireland denied recommending Aggregate IQ to the DUP.
Some of these events, for candidate
campaigns, should be
left off of the governor's
official government schedule.
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.
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 Aggregat
Leave campaign, three affiliated
leave campaigns — BeLeave, Veterans for Britain and the Democratic Unionist party — spent a total of # 757,750 with Aggregat
leave campaigns — BeLeave, Veterans for Britain and the Democratic Unionist party — spent a total of # 757,750 with Aggregate IQ.
It's the same company that was used by a number of the other pro-Brexit
campaigns, including the
official Vote
Leave group, and the DUP.
And he did the rare thing of getting all the
Leave campaigners rallying together while they were fighting amongst themselves about which group was going to be chosen as the
official Out
campaign.