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Roland Rudd (centre) at the launch of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign in October 2015 with (from left to right) Richard Reed, Karren Brady, Stuart Rose, Brendan Barber, Caroline Lucas and June Sarpong
MULTIMILLIONAIRE chairman of the People’s Vote campaign Roland Rudd has triggered chaos within the anti-Brexit group by sacking two advisers at a critical juncture in Britain’s attempted withdrawal from EU.
Dozens of people employed in the campaign walked out this morning over the dismissals.
The organisation, which campaigns for a second referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, accused Mr Rudd (brother of former work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd) of a “boardroom coup.”
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
MARTIN HALL welcomes a study of Britain’s relationship with the EU that sheds light on the way euroscepticism moved from the margins to the centre
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT