"Banks is suing not the Observer, but Cadwalladr in person over one sentence in a TED Talk in April 2019 where she said: “And I’m not even going to go into the lies that Arron Banks has told about his covert relationship with the Russian government.” bylinetimes.com/2022/01/17/arr…
Remarkable that Banks' ghost writer, Isabel Oakeshott, had inferred exactly the same in 2018 when she wrote in The Times, "In Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore the Kremlin had spotted men it could use. Then they vaulted to the heart of western politics." thetimes.co.uk/article/a-clas…
The Brexit backing, Murdoch owned Times appeared to infer this relationship on other occasions too - "Rise of Brexit’s bad boys was fuelled by Stalin’s vodka. Emails show the Ukip donor Arron Banks and his sidekick Andy Wigmore got a fair wind from Russia"
thetimes.co.uk/article/rise-o…
thetimes.co.uk/article/rise-o…
"Giving evidence about her reporting at the high court in central London on Monday, Cadwalladr said: “Reflecting upon the evidence I thought it was possible he was used and exploited by the Russian government.”
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
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