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We need to talk about where Brexit funder Arron Banks gets his money

openDemocracy investigations raise fresh questions about Arron Banks's wealth and the real source of the Brexit campaign's largest donations.

By Adam Ramsay
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Arron Banks. Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire/PA Images. All rights reserved.

Brexit donor Arron Banks likes to boast about his money. Reported estimates of his fortune vary from £100m to £250m. In his book, 'The Bad Boys of Brexit', Banks says that in 2015 he decided to spend millions of pounds on influencing British politics because “my businesses in this country and overseas, where I own a number of diamond mines, were doing really well”.

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