{"id":354150,"date":"2018-03-27T23:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brexit-under-threat-ukip-deny-working-with-cambridge-analytica-amid-explosive-whistleblower-hearing-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T23:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:33:01","slug":"brexit-under-threat-ukip-deny-working-with-cambridge-analytica-amid-explosive-whistleblower-hearing-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brexit-under-threat-ukip-deny-working-with-cambridge-analytica-amid-explosive-whistleblower-hearing-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit under threat? UKIP deny working with Cambridge Analytica amid explosive whistleblower hearing \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>        UKIP has denied the party had any working relationship with Cambridge Analytica (CA), refuting the claims of whistleblower Christopher Wylie.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The former employee from the political data firm has thrown jaw-dropping allegations of corruption, law breaking, and vote swaying at the firm he has now left.<\/p>\n<p>Wylie revealed at a DCMS committee in Parliament that he is <em>\u201cabsolutely\u201d<\/em> convinced Brexit campaign groups in the EU referendum worked together \u2013 despite UK rules banning finance sharing and campaign collusion. He said he saw evidence that Vote Leave and BeLeave were in partnership with each other and with CA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/422438-cambridge-analytica-christopher-wylie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.03\/thumbnail\/5aba16d9fc7e9379698b4580.jpg\" alt=\"Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie \u00a9 Toby Melville\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>When asked if Arron Banks and Nigel Farage\u2019s Leave.Eu \u2013 a pro-Brexit rival to Vote Leave was involved \u2013 he confirmed it. Wylie also said he saw invoices from CA to the UK Independence Party (UKIP), the party then headed by Farage and funded by Banks. The whistleblower also pointedly suggested that MPs investigate Banks further.<\/p>\n<p>A UKIP spokesperson attempted to explain the invoices, telling RT: <em>\u201cThey punted for some work \u2013 some free work \u2013 it\u2019s what you do in consultancy. They then spoke to us and we said we can\u2019t afford it and it\u2019s not useful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey cheekily invoiced (Aaron) Banks and Banks said no \u2013 and that was the end of it. I think it was a \u00a350,000 [$70,600] invoice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting way of using the word work \u2013 there was never a commercial agreement between us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe laughed at what they were promising it was no great value and certainly not for that sort of money.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s why UKIP came up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7SAPxYpoHXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wylie, however, has claimed he believes all Brexit campaign groups were working together, despite strict regulations banning them from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to MPs in Parliament, Wylie faced questions on the inner workings of Cambridge Analytica and their connections to the Brexit campaign group Vote Leave \u2013 which is accused of secretly controlling smaller group BeLeave.<\/p>\n<p>Wylie says BeLeave campaigners, and fellow whistleblowers Shahmir Sanni and Darren Grimes were manipulated and told what to do by the Vote Leave lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Wylie accused Vote Leave, BeLeave, the DUP, and Veterans for Britain of working together in the EU referendum campaign, convincing him they <em>\u201ccheated\u201d<\/em> in the referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Cummings, chairman of Vote Leave, has denied the allegations, branding Wylie a <em>\u201cfantasist-charlatan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/422480-facebook-brexit-ukip-link\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UKIP has denied the party had any working relationship with Cambridge Analytica (CA), refuting the claims of whistleblower Christopher Wylie. The former employee from the political data firm has thrown jaw-dropping allegations of corruption, law breaking, and vote swaying at the firm he has now left. Wylie revealed at a DCMS committee in Parliament that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}