Gladys Bramall

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Gladys Bramall was a majority shareholder, with her husband Leonard Bramall, in Construct-Equip, a West-Midlands based plant hire business.

She served as company secretary until early 2016.

She also gave to the eurosceptic Vote Leave campaign on the 9 May 2016 in form of two donations of £500,000 and £100,000 toward the UK's EU membership referendum in June 2016.

Big 'Vote Leave' donor turns out to be former BNP

Gladys Bramall, one of Vote Leave's biggest individual donors, has told news-site Buzzfeed that she was formerly a member of the far-right British National Party. The 88-year old, who has donated a total of £600,000 to the campaign (making her the third biggest individual donor) has her name appear on a leaked BNP membership list from 2006, when the party was being led by the notorious Nick Griffin, who has since departed.

When contacted by Buzzfeed, Bramall confirmed that she would be found on the list, but that her husband Leonard Bramall had done it when signing himself up without her knowledge. 'My husband joined, he obviously enrolled me at the same time', she confirmed.

Michael Gove, former Justice secretary and one of the key political figures that spearheaded the case for leaving the EU, gave this response when questioned on the issue:

'I utterly abhor and reject the politics of the BNP and the people who support it...If this money comes from someone whose views are objectionable, then of course we’ll do everything that we can to make sure that money that comes from any tainted source is returned and plays no part in the campaign.'