Sentences with phrase «prominent leave campaigners»

Andrea Leadsom was the favoured candidate for prime minister among a number of prominent Leave campaigners.

The UKIP leader, and one of the most prominent Leave campaigners, appears to have conceded defeat, telling Sky News» Darren McCaffrey that he expects Remain to win by a narrow margin.

But a prominent Leave campaigner, Iain Duncan Smith, has suggested the scientists may have been leaned on by EU bureaucrats, saying «those threats are complete rubbish and scientists shouldn't listen to them».

Gove, a prominent Leave campaigner compared to Machiavellian maestro Frank Underwood in the US TV series House of Cards, was backed by fellow campaigners in his anti-expert stance.

Not exact matches

A prominent campaigner for remain, the former education secretary has used her position at the helm of the Treasury select committee since losing her cabinet position to press the government over its plans for leaving the EU — often acting as a voice for business in parliament in her efforts to prevent a no - deal Brexit.

On the leave side too, Kate Hoey and Gisela Stuart were prominent campaigners.»

Both groups deny any wrongdoing and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a prominent Vote Leave campaigner, said the claims were «utterly ludicrous».