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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Arron Banks Brexit campaign's 'secret' meetings with Cambridge Analytica
Leaked emails show Leave.EU misled parliament and UK regulator about meetings with controversial Trump-linked firm –...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsDark money investigations: what we’ve found out, and why we’re looking
For the past two years openDemocracy has been tracking down the secretive, wealthy donors trying to influence...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRight-wing think tank accused of promoting tobacco and oil industry “propaganda” in schools
The Institute of Economic Affairs’ magazine distributed to tens of thousands of British schoolchildren promotes...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsTheresa May accused of "major cover-up" over Brexit donor Arron Banks
Home Office refuses openDemocracy’s request for information about investigation into Banks – saying this “would...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsBrexit bankroller Arron Banks, Cambridge Analytica and Steve Bannon – explosive emails reveal fresh links
Brexit donor asked controversial Trump-linked data firm to 'come up with strategy' for fundraising in the US – and...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: How Arron Banks’s campaign ‘ambassador’ made his millions in Russia
Jim Mellon introduced Brexit ‘bad boys’ Nigel Farage and Arron Banks, and was a Leave.EU ambassador. He claims he...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Arron Banks’s staff crunched millions of voters’ data after Brexit vote
Whistleblower says Banks’s staff were told to ‘urgently’ process personal information on millions of voters after...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsWhistleblowers say Arron Banks ‘misled’ viewers on BBC Andrew Marr show
Brexit funder said staff working for his controversial Leave campaign were put on different contracts, and declared...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsArron Banks lied to Parliament about his Brexit campaign, say whistleblowers
Major Brexit bankroller, now under investigation by the National Crime Agency, “deliberately misled” Parliament...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Met Police ignored Brexit campaign evidence for months
Scotland Yard claimed it didn’t receive key evidence about Leave campaigns until September. But the evidence was...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsBrexit is showing the urban middle classes the real Britain
And they don’t like it.
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsPolice still not investigating Leave campaigns, citing ‘political sensitivities’
Exclusive: Months after Scotland Yard received ‘substantial’ evidence of potential criminality by pro-Leave groups,...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsOur governments share responsibility for the Cambridge Analytica crisis… and here’s how they should fix it
Government must regulate before privatised military propaganda firms interfere with any more elections
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsHow the Electoral Commission turned blind eye to DUP's shady Brexit cash
Emails reveal elections regulator was ‘concerned’ by revelations about mysterious £435,000 donation – but closed the...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsThe High Court case which could reveal the DUP's secret Brexit donors
The Good Law Project is taking the Electoral Commission to court to find out who was behind a huge donation that...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsMajor Scottish Tory funders fined over illegal donation
The Irvine Unionist Club donation funded 10% of Ruth Davidson’s campaign spending in 2016
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations‘Second’ bank account: MPs demand probe into Rees-Mogg’s Brexit group
Cross-party demands for an urgent investigation into the financial affairs of the European Research Group follow...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsThe High Court found that Vote Leave broke the law in a new way
England & Wales's High Court has ruled that Vote Leave broke campaign spending limits in addition to the way that...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsParliament watchdog probes Rees-Mogg’s hard Brexit lobby group over “other sources of funding”
EXCLUSIVE: Emails released by UK parliamentary standards watchdog reveal a ‘second’ bank account held by the...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsOpposition MPs call on PM to investigate former minister over hidden links to Tory ultra-Brexiteers
After openDemocracy revealed how former Brexit minister Steve Baker continued to work with the secretive European...