Arron Banks gave '£450,000 funding to Nigel Farage after Brexit vote'

Nigel Farage was lavishly funded by Arron Banks in the year after the Brexit referendum, Channel 4 News has alleged, with the insurance tycoon providing him with a furnished Chelsea home, a car and driver, and money to promote him in America.

According to invoices, emails and other documents, Banks, who regularly bankrolled Farage’s former party, Ukip, spent about £450,000 in the year after the referendum, when Farage had quit as Ukip leader, the programme said.

Documents raise new questions about Russian role in Brexit

A trove of new emails revealed by the British press this weekend are helping shine new light on the role Russia may have played in backing the 2016 Brexit referendum.

The documents, reported by both The Times and Observer, reveal that Brexit’s biggest bankroller, Arron Banks, and Leave.EU Director of Communications Andy Wigmore had far more extensive contact with Russian officials than either had previously admitted.

Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’

Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage’s campaign to quit the EU, had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, documents seen by the Observer suggest.

Banks, who gave £12m of services to the campaign, becoming the biggest donor in UK history, has repeatedly denied any involvement with Russian officials, or that Russian money played any part in the Brexit campaign. The Observer has seen documents which a senior Tory MP says, if correct, raise urgent and troubling questions about his relationship with the Russian government.