Britain Loses its Cool Over the Bad Boy of Brexit
From bloombergquint.com
There are no more sensitive topics in British politics than Brexit, tax avoidance and Russian interference. A Molotov cocktail of all three has catapulted businessman Arron Banks to a notoriety he could only have dreamt of when he started his campaign to leave the European Union. On Tuesday, Banks’s campaign group and his company Eldon were fined for breaking data-privacy laws: More than 1 million emails sent to Leave.EU supporters contained marketing for his insurance firm. But that’s not the most interesting part of the controversy: The Electoral Commission suspects he wasn’t the true source of the 8 million pounds ...
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