After openDemocracy revealed how former Brexit minister Steve Baker continued to work with the secretive European Research Group despite being in government, demands for Downing Street to investigate.
Look at the Vote Leave Facebook adverts alongside their more public propaganda, and you see quite how much it promoted racist ideas.
Under the ministerial code, Baker was supposed to cut his ties with the European Research Group when he joined the government in 2017. But newly released emails show that as Brexit minister, he offered them private briefings on critical government policy.
The UK’s elections watchdog has decided it “does not have grounds to open an investigation” into the DUP’s mysterious £435,000 Brexit donation—once more raising questions about how British democracy is regulated.
The Institute of Economic Affairs, accused of offering US donors access to government ministers, is among right-wing think tanks meeting monthly. Conservative MPs have attended, too.
Theresa May’s Brexit not only reduces democratic and judicial oversight of future decisions – it could restrict UK activists’ ability to protest bad decisions, free from interference and intrusive surveillance.
Information released by Facebook shows the DUP said Brexit would be “better for our borders”.
You can be fined more for touting football tickets than you can for subverting Britain's democratic process.
The radical right want a no-deal Brexit so they can force Britain into a disaster capitalist trade deal with the USA.
The Institute of Economic Affairs has been a fixture of political and
media debates on Brexit and more. Now, the Charity Commission is
examining whether the IEA breached rules on political independence
The controversial right-wing think tank has long nurtured the new
Secretary for Brexit and his “war of ideas”. What will this mean now?
The Electoral Commission is expected to find that the largest pro-Brexit campaign group broke the law during the EU referendum. Who are the people involved?
