Leave Means Leave
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Leave Means Leave is a lobby group set up in the wake of the EU referendum to campaign for a 'hard' Brexit, including leaving the European single market and ending free movement.
Its slogan is 'the campaign for a clean Brexit'. Among its supporters are Nigel Lawson, Conservative peer and founder of the climate skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation, and Tory MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg and John Redwood.
Leave Means Leave and its ilk have been described as 'the British equivalent of America’s National Rifle Association': they are well funded; deeply entrenched in their respective countries’ establishments; and wield enormous influence, despite their views being minority ones; and both view anything that smacks of compromise as the thin end of the wedge.[1]
Activities
Spokespeople for Leave Means Leave are regularly quoted in the British press.
It also produced a report in September 2017 New Model Economy For A Post-Brexit Britain, co-published with Labour Leave and Economists for Free Trade.
People
- Richard Tice, co-chair
- John Longworth, co-chair
Political advisory board
- David Jones MP
- Owen Paterson MP
- Gerald Howarth, ex-MP
- Peter Bone MP
- Simon Heffer, ex-Daily Telegraph journalist; since 2015 commentator in the Sunday Telegraph.
- David Campbell Bannerman MEP
Supporters
Listed supporters of Leave Means Leave (as of Nov 2017):
- John Whittingdale MP
- Lord Norman Lamont
- Theresa Villiers
- John Hayes MP
- Julian Lewis MP
- Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
- John Redwood MP
- Ian Paisley MP
- Bernard Jenkin MP
- Suella Fernandes MP
- Desmond Swayne MP
- Andrea Jenkyns MP
- Matt Warman MP
- Paul Scully MP
- Simon Clarke MP
- John Baron MP
- Jack Lopresti MP
- Gareth Johnson MP
- Mike Wood MP
- Peter Lilley MP
- Jim Shannon MP
- Kelvin Hopkins MP
- John Mills, founder of consumer goods giant JML, Labour donor and chair of the pro-Brexit campaign organization Labour Leave.
- Christopher Mills, UKIP business spokesman
- Angus Dalgliesh, represents Brexit lobby group Scientists for Britain
- James Gray MP
- David Amess MP
- Marcus Fysh MP
- Nigel Mills MP
- Nigel Evans MP
- Tim Loughton MP
- Christopher Chope MP
- James Cleverly MP
- Lord Howard Flight
- Andrew Bridgen MP
- Adam Holloway MP
- Patrick Barbour
- Lord Malcolm Pearson
- Sammy Wilson MP
- David Davies MP
- John Flack MEP
Contact
- Website: http://www.leavemeansleave.eu
- Address: 55 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QL
Notes
- ↑ Hardline Brexiteers are the UK’S NRA – and we can’t let them take control of the country, Independent, 19 Oct 2017
