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Vote Leave was[1] a campaigning organisation that supported a "Leave" vote in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.[2] On 13 April 2016 it was designated by the Electoral Commission as the official campaign in favour of leaving the European Union in the Referendum.[3]
Vote Leave was founded in October 2015 by political strategists Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings as a cross-party campaign. It involved Members of Parliament from the Conservative Party, Labour Party and the sole UKIP MP, Douglas Carswell along with MEP Daniel Hannan and Conservative peer Lord Lawson. Labour MP Gisela Stuart served as chairman and Leader of the Vote Leave Campaign Committee as Co-Convenor with Michael Gove MP, of the Conservatives.[4] The campaign was also supported by a number of prominent politicians; including outgoing Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who became a key figurehead for the Vote Leave campaign. A number of Vote Leave principals, including Douglas Carswell, Michael Gove, Bernard Jenkin and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, were also members of the influential IPSA resourced European Research Group.
Vote Leave co-operated with Labour Leave, Conservatives for Britain and Business for Britain throughout the referendum campaign.[5]
At the referendum held on Thursday 23 June 2016, the majority of those who voted, voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, which was equivalent to a 51.9% share of the vote (a 3.8% margin); which set into motion the steps to be taken for British withdrawal from the European Union. In September 2016, Change Britain was formed to act as a successor organisation.
On 23 June and over the following days, both Vote Leave and its rival organisation, "Britain Stronger in Europe", were excoriated by sections of the media and academia for a campaign described by the Electoral Reform Society as "dire", which left the public seriously lacking proper information. On 17 July 2018, Vote Leave was fined £61,000 and referred to police for breaking electoral spending laws.[6][7]
^"Final gazette notice". Companies House.
^"EU referendum: New 'exit' group launches its campaign". BBC News. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
^Jon Stone (13 April 2016). "Vote Leave designated as official EU referendum Out campaign".
^George Parker (13 March 2016). "Michael Gove and Gisela Stuart to head Vote Leave group". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
^Cite error: The named reference voteleavetakecontrol.org was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Brexit campaign group broke electoral law, says Electoral Commission". BBC News. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^"Vote Leave fined and referred to the police for breaking electoral law". Electoral Commission. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
VoteLeave was a campaigning organisation that supported a "Leave" vote in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. On 13 April 2016...
both the Leave and Remain campaigns. On the day of the referendum Lord Ashcroft's polling team questioned 12,369 people who had completed voting. This poll...
the Leave campaign included future Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. The electorate voted to leave the EU with a 51.9% share of the vote, with...
was the operations director for the VoteLeave campaign for the 2016 referendum vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. Woodcock was born...
remain a member of, or leave, the European Union (EU). The referendum resulted in 51.9% of the votes cast being in favour of leaving the EU, triggering calls...
VoteLeave Campaign Committee and was one of its most high-profile figures, along with the Conservative MPs Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. The Vote Leave...
Studies and the Institute of Economic Affairs—were accused by former VoteLeave employee Shahmir Sanni of using the meetings to "agree on a single set...
instead chairing the official leave campaign, VoteLeave. John Mills officially resigned as chairman of Labour Leave, in July 2018. The supporters page...
group: Britain Stronger in Europe Designated official leading Leave campaigning group: VoteLeave The Remain Campaign was led by Britain Stronger in Europe...
gathered 100,000 votes or more. 16 of those cities voted to Leave, and 14 voted to Remain, or 53% Leave and 47% Remain. In those 30 cities, votes to Remain outnumbered...
Advisor to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, credited the success of the VoteLeave campaign in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum...
of Mississippi). The relationship between VoteLeave, AggregateIQ, and other Leave campaigns. VoteLeave's handling of personal data. The official Remain...
Education Secretary, leaving when Gove was made Chief Whip in a cabinet reshuffle. From 2015 to 2016, Cummings was director of VoteLeave, an organisation...
A long time Conservative Party donor, Hosking donated £1.7 million to VoteLeave in 2016 and supported pro-Brexit candidates in the 2017 general election...
apart from this. BeLeave was described as a "VoteLeave Outreach Group" on the official VoteLeave webpage. In March 2018 former BeLeave activist Shahmir...
political website BrexitCentral, founded by Matthew Elliott, the former VoteLeave chief executive. In 2018, he became the digital manager for the Institute...
John Longworth, according to the BBC, the organisation grew out of the VoteLeave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum. As of June 2020, following the...
held in 2016, with a majority of voters voting to leave the European Union. The decision of the electorate to vote in favour of Brexit marks the first time...
them. Johnson supported VoteLeave's statement that the government was committed to Turkish accession to the EU. VoteLeave was accused of implying that...
Article 50. When asked how she would vote in a second referendum in December 2019, Rayner said she would voteleave as long as the withdrawal agreement...
were cited as justification include campaign finance violations by VoteLeave and Leave.EU, the alleged use of data illicitly harvested by Cambridge Analytica...
Leave.EU through its ability to harvest data from people's Facebook profiles in order to target them with individualized persuasive messages to vote for...
without a formal motion or a formal vote. In parliaments under the Westminster system, leave of the house or leave of the senate is a similar concept to...
involvement in the VoteLeave and BeLeave campaigns in 2016 and the Cambridge Analytica scandal that broke out in 2018. Two years after the Brexit vote in 2016,...
campaigning began. A total of 33,577,342 votes were cast in the poll, with 51.89% voting for Britain to leave the EU. Cameron announced his resignation...
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