The depth of the ties between leading Conservative Brexiteers and the global Christian Right, anti-abortion and anti-LGBT movement are laid bare in a series of documents released by WikiLeaks last week. They are among 17,000 internal files originating from controversial ultra-conservative campaigning organisations in Spain.
The files include copies of speeches in which activists talk openly about how to launch worldwide “culture wars” and import controversial American tactics into the UK. They also include programmes and speakers’ lists from several meetings that were held in the UK between 2011 and 2013, behind closed doors and without public scrutiny.
A leading Tory donor, Vote Leave’s CEO Matthew Elliott and an MP who advised David Davis when Brexit Secretary are among a number of prominent British conservatives who are listed as speakers or attendees at these meetings – organised by UK, US and other international right-wing activists and strategists.
