Arron Banks at the Fake News Inquiry. Image, Parliament.tv, fair use
In many ways, Arron Banks’s appearance today to answer MPs’ questions was in keeping with character. By turns the biggest donor in British political history was garrulous, boastful and contemptuous. And, after three hours – when he and his wingman Andy Wigmore walked out, ostensibly to keep “a luncheon appointment” with two DUP MPs – Banks had generated far more heat than light.
What we found out
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s questions covered everything from Leave.EU’s relationship with Cambridge Analytica to Banks’s own dealings with Russia. But there was one area that Banks seemed particularly keen not to talk about.
