In Brexit showdown, British PM May faces issue of 'meaningful vote'

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5. 'Winning an election isn't about facts': Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore face MPs' questions - live

Key players from the Leave.EU campaign answer questions about Brexit and Russia. Follow the latest developments

Carole Cadwalladr: 10 questions Banks and Wigmore must answer

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2018/jun/12/arron-banks-and-andy-wigmore-face-mps-leave-eu-brexit-russia-live

46s ago
11:32
“I’m frankly sick and tired of this,” Banks says. “You’ve got a vested interest in trying to discredit the Brexit campaign. I look, you’ve not called any witnesses from the Remain campaign to hammer them. If Mr Osborne, editor of the evening standard, isn’t going to any football matches with Putin’s number one man, he’s certainly working for Putin’s second man.

“The guy leading the Remain campaign is working for a Putin oligarch in London. If you can’t see double standards, I don’t think that’s fair.”


2m ago
11:31
“I like to think I’m an evil genius with a white cap who controls all of democracy, but clearly that’s not true,” Banks says with a grin, before getting more frustrated:

“By the way, you keep mentioning different names. This is a wonderful pieces of Guardian’s fake news. What they’ve done is go through the documents at Companies House, and Companies House frequently makes mistakes. When you say ‘different names’, it’s my name, so I can’t see where it comes from. It just says Arron Banks, sometimes misspelled with two As, or in some cases it uses my middle name. Now you just brought it up, because that is exactly how fake news works. You say ‘you used seven different version in companies house’, well actually it’s just my name, or my middle name. It’s a complete non-story.

“If you don’t like my structure, don’t lecture me about offshore tax structures or complexity, change the law!”

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