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Revealed: How dark money is winning ‘the Brexit influencing game’

As Tory MPs resign in protest at the malign influence of hardline Brexiters, documents show the “unfettered” access to ministers and senior politicians enjoyed by secretive think tanks such as the IEA that are “marching the country” to a no-deal Brexit.

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Conservative MPs Sarah Wollaston, Anna Soubry and Heidi Allen at a press conference.

Sarah Wollaston, Anna Soubry and Heidi Allen: driven out by dark money? Image: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/PA Images. All rights reserved.

The three departing Conservatives MPs pulled no punches. In a joint resignation letter that rocked Westminster on Wednesday, the trio said that the Tories were “in the grip” of the pro-Brexit European Research Group who were “now recklessly marching the country to the cliff edge of no deal".