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Vote Leave chief Matthew Elliott, who is credited with several successful political crusades, is on the Free Market Forum's advisory board
Great Brexit Con Job
13/04/2021
Get Brexit Done’ has unravelled in a spectacular fashion; a significant knock to the economy, removal of rights and freedoms, more red tape for business and – the most heart-breaking of all – trouble has returned to Northern Ireland. The obvious answer to this foreseeable problem is for the UK to be part of the single market and customs union.
Prominent Brexiteers have championed the project, claiming they want to set up an institution to tell the story of Britain’s exit from the European Union “before items and stories get lost”.
Organisers behind the Museum of Brexit want the public to donate money and mementos to create a permanent exhibition devoted to the UK’s exit from the EU.
Leave campaigners behind project only won charitable status by vowing it would tell balanced story.
Fisking Frost - Chris Grey
12/03/2021
[This post will] provide a detailed analysis of an article written by David (now Lord) Frost in this week’s Sunday Telegraph.
It helped create an "emotional disconnect" from expert advice which took advantage of the "willingness of true believers".
British Brexit strategist Daniel Hannan is this week’s guest on Conflict Zone, discussing how honest his Vote Leave campaign really was. Did it misinform and mislead voters as some claim? And what does a post-Brexit UK look like?
Departure of Boris Johnson’s Brexit ‘brain’ signals end of influence for Vote Leave team.
Appointment would cause ructions in Westminster as many hope for outsider to take key role.
Proposed rewriting of data protection rules said to put vital cooperation in doubt.
The government is facing increasing scrutiny over its decision to use “committed Brexiteer” lawyers to provide advice on the legality of breaching the EU withdrawal agreement.
Billionaire founder of think tank that advocates leaving single market obtains right to work anywhere in Europe.
There are good reasons to believe latest move is partly theatre, but there are hefty issues at stake.
The Brexiteer pledge to ‘take back control’ of the UK’s borders has been exposed as hollow
14/08/2020
The supreme irony is that, despite all those Vote Leave promises, Brexit is making it harder to control UK borders.
Faculty, linked to senior Tories, hired to collect tweets as part of coronavirus-related contract.
Hardline European Research Group branded ‘a corruption of Conservatism’ by senior Tory MP
06/08/2020
Organisation which drove UK to a hard Brexit made up of ‘climate change deniers’ and ‘Trump sympathisers’, new book is told.
A journalist has tried to smash the wall of silence around NI’s record political donation.
Under cover of Brexit - Chris Grey
03/07/2020
The most important Brexit event of the week came and went with relatively little fanfare, yet it marks a significant moment.
Deal may allow Faculty, linked to senior Tory figures, to analyse social media data, utility bills and credit ratings.
Conservative and pro-Brexit voters are turning against the prime minister after he refused to sack his chief adviser.
Tory minister is resisting calls to sell stake in Faculty as it expands its Whitehall reach
Fake news handed Brexiteers the referendum – and now they have no idea what they're doing
18/01/2017
'Would we have won without immigration? No. Would we have won without...the NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests no. Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the single market? No way'