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Despite previous boasts of working with Cambridge Analytica, and then invoices confirming work done in early 2016, Banks constantly denies their involvement. I often thought he was worried about collusion with Vote Leave. But there is an alternative... opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/p…
We now know that Manafort (who was recommended to Trump by the business partner of another Leave EU founder Tice) met with his GRU linked contact in August 2016 to hand over polling data. This is at the heart of possible collusion with Putin’s troll farms.
Back in the day before he denied it Leave EU’s Andy Wigmore admitted using Russian bots for Brexit targeting. But HOW were they targeted? What happened to the UKIP data? Did any, like Manafort’s hand over, make it to Russia on the trip Wigmore boasted about in Feb 2016? 
* Wigmore told both the BBC and Sky News that Banks was unavailable for interview in mid February 2016 because he was in Moscow
