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Leave.EU, the original campaign group for Brexit has hit back at the officially designated campaign, Vote Leave, accusing it of being nothing more than a “Tory plaything” and a front for Conservative power games. Arron Banks, founder of Leave.eu has

Supporters of the ‘Vote Leave’ establishment campaign to lead Britain out of the European Union (EU) caused outrage last night after claiming that the Electoral Commission had already made a decision, and that the group would be getting the official

Writing in his column in the Mail on Sunday today, Peter Hitchens is perhaps the first non-Breitbart journalist to pick up on the fact that ‘Vote Leave‘ – run by Conservative Party figures Dominic Cummings and Matthew Elliott – don’t

The establishment ‘Vote Leave‘ campaign – run by Conservative Party-linked figures Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings – has come under fire again, this time as it is revealed that the group planned to set up a number of front groups

The head of the Leave.EU campaign, Arron Banks, has written to all eurosceptic Members of Parliament today urging them to consider their support for the rival Vote Leave group – currently in perpetual turmoil.  But Mr. Banks is not attempting

The establishment ‘Vote Leave’ campaign, which represents soft-eurosceptics in the Westminster political establishment, is in chaos once again as it was announced last night that the organisation is putting as its figurehead the ageing Lord Lawson, while troublemaker directors Matthew

Britain’s voluntary sector regulator – the Charity Commission – is investigating allegations that an entity founded by Matthew Elliott — the chief executive of establishment Brexit group Vote Leave — has broken the law by funnelling donations to groups involved in Eurosceptic political campaigns. Mr. Elliott, 37, founded the Politics and

The eurosceptic grassroots campaign group Leave.EU has signed up over a thousand local councillors from across Britain and the political spectrum in support of their campaign to Leave the European Union at the forthcoming referendum. The campaign already has, 270,000

A recommendation by UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage for Britain to leave the European Union (EU) would have no significant negative effect on how people intend to vote, and among Conservative voters actually grants a significant boost to

The Spectator magazine doesn’t hide its establishment bias. In fact, it lashes out whenever threatened, including by this parish. You may recall they recently had a mild hissy fit over us publishing Iain Dale’s Power 100 list. They didn’t like

Plumbing millionaire Charlie Mullins (pictured above) has quit Business for Britain following the group’s hasty re-positioning of itself as the driving force behind the ‘Vote Leave Take Control’ campaign, as he does not support the organisation’s new mandate to campaign

The Tory establishment are slapping themselves on the back again this morning, following an article by Conservative Party Home editor Mark Wallace.  I should declare an interest: Mark got me a job once at the Tax Payers’ Alliance. I owe

As Britain gets ready to decide its future relationship with the European Union (EU), a major war has broken between two rival eurosceptic camps. Competing groups, led by Tory-confidant Matthew Elliott and UKIP donor Arron Banks respectively, have held unsuccessful secret talks about merging their

Today’s Sunday Times carries a story about the EU Referendum ‘No’ campaign. It claims that organisers on one half of the ‘No’ camp have said they’ll have no problem raising the £7m maximum spend, and that they’ll already spoken with

Tax Payers’ Alliance founder, NO2AV campaign director, and once-upon-a-time boss of mine Matthew Elliott has attempted to ride like a white knight to Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s aid following his comments that Britain “can’t leave Europe”.  Following Breitbart London’s

One of the oft-touted leaders of the eurosceptic ‘out’ campaign has come out in favour of staying inside the European Union, if David Cameron’s renegotiation leads to a ‘two tier’ Europe. Matthew Elliott, who led the successful No2AV campaign against electoral