Symbol copyright Reuters Symbol caption Mr Banks is a co-founding father of the Leave.EU team
An utility to sign up for the Conservative Party via Go Away.ECU co-founder and previous UKIP donor Arron Banks has been grew to become down, the Tories have mentioned.
Mr Banks and the pro-Brexit team’s communications director, Andy Wigmore, each announced on social media that they had been joining the party.
The pair mentioned they had received a affirmation electronic mail welcoming them.
But a Conservative Birthday Celebration spokesperson later mentioned their “packages for club… have not been licensed”.
Earlier this week Mr Banks known as on supporters of his professional-Brexit Go Away.ECU team to join the Conservative Birthday Party in order that they can vote within the party’s next management election.
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He posted a sequence of tweets approximately becoming a member of the Tories – together with one announcing he had made the move “to ensure he has a vote at the inevitable leadership contest. Let’s back a Brexiteer and make this us of a great once more!”
Mr Wigmore tweeted a duplicate of a letter from Conservative Birthday Celebration chairman Brandon Lewis mentioning that their membership was “activated” and they could be capable of take part in candidate selection and long run leadership elections after 3 months.
Who is Arron Banks?
The FIFTY TWO-yr-antique is a multi-millionaire who co-founded the Depart.EUROPEAN marketing campaign.
Having made his money in car insurance, he was certainly one of the most important donors to the united kingdom Independence Party and gave £9m to Go Away.EU which he has mentioned got here from his private wealth.
In May Go Away.ECU was once fined £70,000 for breaches of election regulation in the 2016 EU referendum by way of, in line with the Electoral Commission, failing to file “no less than” £SEVENTY SEVEN,380 it spent.
He has also been grilled by way of MPs approximately his influence on global politics with Mr Banks guffawing off the idea he was an “evil genius with a white cat”.
