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 sceptic 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) are mainly Euroskeptic Conservative Party MPs, including those pushed out of government by the prime minister :[2]
- 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
- ↑ Tory Eurosceptics push for hard Brexit, Guardian, Sept 2016
