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Multimillionaire Conservative donor registers a new party to campaign for hard Brexit if a snap election is called
Michael Savage
Sun 17 Feb 2019 09.00 GMT
A Tory donor has registered a new party ready to champion a hard Brexit in a snap election amid rising concern that the Conservatives will eventually split over Theresa May’s strategy.
Jeremy Hosking, the multimillionaire financier who backed a series of pro-Brexit Tory candidates at the last election, said he had submitted the paperwork to form his new party, Brexit Express, which would welcome Tory MPs wanting to protest should the prime minister “botch Brexit”.
He made the move after launching a billboard campaign supporting a no-deal Brexit, claiming it was the only way of securing the right deal with the EU in the long term. Hosking said he expected many parties to be formed over the next year as “part of the reorientation of British politics”.
“Can these unhappy spouses co-exist in the same political party? The best form of defence is attack,” he said. “We don’t necessarily want the Tory party to split, but it seems to me that there is a good case for it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/17/no-deal-brexiters-tory-split-conservative-multimillionaire-donor-new-party
On 14 October 2020 our client applied to the Commission under s30 of the PPRA for a change of registered
name from Brexit Express (BE) to Reclaim. It also applied to change the name of its Leader from Mr
Jeremy Hosking to Mr Laurence Fox.
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https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files/2021-05/FOI%20019-21%20-%20Response%20%28redacted%29.pdf |