
Former cabinet minister & PR agent Priti Patel at Veterans for Britain's final campaign event event before the referendum. Image, Hannah McKay, PA images, all rights reserved.
This is a story about the establishment that brought you Brexit.
It’s a story about a cast of extraordinary characters. Kemp, the loud colonel: a grammar school boy from Essex and self-described “thug”, rallying the troops through Twitter and the tabloids; Walton, the former Metropolitan police commander who left to become “an independent consultant” in the wake of criticism in parliament and press; Banks, the “communications consultant specialising in corporate reputation” who used to work in Dubai. And Guthrie, the Anglo-Scottish aristocrat and Field Marshal, who these days dabbles in private intelligence and mining: for gold, for oil, and for data.