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EXCLUSIVE: Footage from a private meeting at the Ritz shows Nigel Farage soliciting Brexit Party donations from a millionaire Putin cheerleader and an influencer who has made a string of anti-Muslim comments

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At the Ritz last month Nigel Farage sought Brexit Party donations from a millionaire Scientologist Kremlin apologist who says he 'loves' Putin buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/fa…
The Farage Ritz event was hosted by right-wing influencer Amanda Eliasch, who has endorsed Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech, said Muslims should integrate or "get out" of the UK, and claimed "ethnic diversity is a huge problem"
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Farage publicly claims the Brexit Party is "intolerant of intolerance". But privately he asked these two for 'any help, any support.. whether it’s getting your friends involved, whether it’s giving us money, whatever it is, we need all the help we can get'
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Does Nigel Farage stand by his decision to ask a millionaire Putin supporter and an anti-Islam influencer for Brexit Party donations at a private event at the Ritz?

Farage and the Brexit Party declined to comment. buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/fa…
Amanda Eliasch, who hosted the Farage Ritz event, later denied to BuzzFeed News that she is anti-Muslim. "I have an Islamic driver who I absolutely adore"
buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/fa…
While issuing her denial, Farage's Ritz tea party pal Amanda Eliasch told our @MarkDiStef: "you're not English either, so why are you worried about this?”
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Tory chairman Brandon Lewis has privately assured MPs he is not endorsing the TV debates proposal

His team say he has no view on it and that this is a decision for 1922 committee – so eyes on Cheryl Gillan and Charles Walker
When the Hancock TV debates letter emerged there was concern among some of the One Nation MPs whose support he is trying to attract

Fear is a debate would descend into a blue-on-blue-on-blue chaotic slanging match and help Corbyn at a general (One Nation group's worst fear)
Tory chairman's team now saying it's not a matter for the 22 but for the candidates
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Alex Wickham
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Lot of chatter among MPs this morning about Rory Stewart being a “suicide bomber” for Michael Gove

Suspicion is that despite the fun twitter vids Rory is a not a genuine candidate, his pitch is not seriously designed to win and he has next to no MPs
MPs think his sole intention is to attack Brexiteers and make Gove look like a moderate unifier

Rory and Gove are friends and both their campaigns are closely linked to the Onward think tank. It is widely expected Rory will endorse Gove when he is knocked out in the first round
A Raab backing MP says of Rory: “He’s turning his fire on Boris for now but we expect it will be Dom next. He calls himself a unifying candidate while attacking the views of half the Tory party. Once he’s done his dirty work we expect him to back Gove and be offered a plum job."
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Alex Wickham
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NEW: Lib Dem sources celebrating what they expect will be “huge wins” tonight

- they reckon they'll get between 10 and 17 MEPs (they currently have 1)
- say they’ve topped the poll in London
- and think they will rival the Brexit Party’s national rating
Lib Dem source says they think they'll get 2 seats in the North West, one West Midlands seat and at least 2 in London

They expect to win in Lambeth, Camden, Islington, Kensington – they think they're polling around 40% in places in London
Sources expecting "bonkers" results including Labour possibly even struggling in Southwark and Lewisham. One source says Labour on sub-16% in Norwich
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🌿Steph Philip⭐️⭐️⭐️
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U.S. IS FAMILIAR WITH LEFTIST TACTICS TO SMEAR THEIR OPPOSITION:
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Carole Cadwalladr
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NEW: here’s *actual* evidence that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is accepting foreign donations via PayPal. Dollars, yuan, Swiss francs, roubles..you name it, they’ll take it. Laundered by PayPal into British £. This *cannot* be legal, surely?? Electoral Commission MUST investigate
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Remember how I said if scheme looks like money laundering & smells like money laundering, Brexit Party’s should prove it’s *not* money laundering? That was before I knew an *actual* money launderer involved. Meet George Cottrell. Convicted felon. And acting Brexit Party treasurer
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An excellent article on the sudden appearance of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party's Twitter Army. A shame it doesn't examine Breitbart radicalising & recruiting lonely people looking for a tribe to belong to as alt-Right Trolls. buzzfeed.com/alexspence/nig… via @alexGspence
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Joeseph Bernstien @BuzzFeedNews on making alt_Right narratives the new normal in the media: buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…
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Stop Funding Fake News
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THREAD: 1/ Fake news website Westmonster, co-founded by Aaron Banks, is now effectively a propaganda channel for Nigel Farage’s #Brexit Party. Organisations advertising on the site are helping to fund this output supporting the party’s campaign #SFFN
2/ Editor & co-founder of Westmonster, Michael Heaver, is standing for the Brexit Party in the European parliamentary elections. In the article announcing his candidacy, there was no mention of Heaver stepping away from the website for the campaign period. #SFFN
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