Brexit bankroller Arron Banks’s close relationship with the controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica – and the key role played by former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon in the early days of Banks’s Brexit campaign – have been laid bare in explosive new emails obtained by openDemocracy.
Banks, who is currently under investigation by the National Crime Agency over the sources of his £8.4m Brexit donation, told Parliament in June that he had “initial discussions” with the controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica but “did not take up their services”.
Emails and documents obtained by openDemocracy show that:
