The Sunday Times has published the names of the largest donors to the Leave Campaign and Business Insider have them on their website (HERE). I reproduce the list below. As we watch the catastrophe that is Brexit slowly destroy a once great nation and as the people who were persuaded to vote for it become poorer we can ponder the list of those who put considerable sums of their own money into the mendacious campaign that did it.
Tessa Keswick £20,000
Keswick is a prominent writer and political activist, having served as a special adviser to Ken Clarke for six years in the 1980s and 90s. She is married to Sir Henry Keswick, a businessman who owned Brexit-backing magazine The Spectator during the 1970s
Chris & Monica Miller £25,000
The Miller family, led by brothers Michael, 63, and Chris, 66 owns Harris & Sheldon, the Coventry-based industrial and property conglomerate which in turn owns some of Britain’s leading hunting and fishing destinations, including Junction Pool, probably the most famous salmon beat in Scotland. The family's net worth was £126 million in 2017
Lady Annabel Goldsmith £25,000
Wealthy aristocrat Goldsmith made much of her money after the death of her second husband, financier James Goldsmith. She has a history of political activism and founded eurosceptic pressure group the Democracy Movement in the late 1990s. The mother of former MP and Conservative Party candidate Zac Goldsmith, Goldsmith is theeponym of famous London nightclub Annabel's.
Jan Colam — £25,000
63-year-old Colam made his money through his business Interfish, a Devon-based fish processor. He is the son of a Manchester fish importer, exporter and wholesaler, and founded Interfish in 1977.
Jeremy Woolridge — £35,000
Wedge Galvanizing, which is chaired by Woolridge, has worked on thousands of buildings and other structures, including the rollercoaster in Blackpool. Woolridge's net worth was £124 million in 2017, making him Britain's 891st richest person.
Sir Rocco Forte — £42,000
Forte is one of the UK's most prominent hoteliers, owning famous locations including Brown's in London, and a chain of eponymous Rocco Forte hotels. He is worth £340 million.
Will Adderley — £50,000
Adderley is the deputy chairman of UK-based retailer Dunelm. His estimated net worth is £1.183 billion.
Terence Mordaunt — £50,000
Mordaunt heads Bristol-based cargo handling business The Bristol Port Company along with David Ord. The pair have given over £640,000 to the Tory party since 2001.
Lord Harris — £50,000
Lord Harris, also known as Lord Harris of Peckham, is the founder of Carpetright. He is currently a Tory peer and the House of Lords and has an estimated net worth of £110 million.
Paul Marshall — £100,000
Marshall co-founded hedge fund Marshall Wace in 1997. He is one of Brexit's biggest financial backers and last month praised Theresa May for calling a snap election, saying it would give her "the mandate she needs to negotiate strongly" when Brexit talks officially get underway.
Sir Michael Hintze — £100,000
London-based Hintze is the majority owner of the CQS hedge fund and has previously worked for Goldman Sachs. His estimated net worth is £1.28 billion. He said in the run-up to the June referendum that Britain had more to fear from staying in the EU than departing it.
Tim Martin — £212,000
JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has not only been one of Brexit's biggest financial backers but one of the business world's most vocal supporters of it. He has repeatedly criticised "experts" for gloomy predictions regarding life outside of the EU and described the Leave vote as a "new Magna Carta".
Lord Farmer — £300,000
Michael Farmer is a businessman, House of Lords life member, and treasurer of the Conservative Party. Writing before the June referendum, Farmer said Brexit would be a "bright new beginning" for Britain.
Michael Freeman — £348,000
Brexit donor Freeman co-founded property developer group Argent in 1981. His estimated net worth is £135 million.
Peter Cruddas — £350,000
Cruddas is the founder of online trading company CMC Markets. He was at the centre of a political scandal in 2012 when it emerged that he offered then Prime Minister David Cameron donations in return for access to government policy-making.
Lord Bamford — £673,000
Lord Bamford is an English businessman and currently the chairman of managing director of JCB. He said Britain has "little to fear" about life outside the EU as the country "can stand on its own two feet" as a global trading nation.
Crispin Odey — £873,288.15
Odey is a London-based hedge fund manager who played a major role in funding the Brexit campaign. He voted for Brexit but warned his clients just a few months later to prepare for a recession and higher inflation in wake of the shock Leave vote.
Lord Edmiston — £1,000,000
Robert Norman Edmiston became a millionaire through his company IM Group, an importer of cars. He described the notion that Britain's economy will fall off the cliff after leaving the EU as "complete nonsense" in the lead up to the June referendum.
Jeremy Hosking — £1,691,296
Hosking made his millions through investment and private equity and is currently a shareholder in Premier League football club Crystal Palace. His net worth is estimated to be £330 million.
Peter Hargreaves — £3,200,000
Hargreaves, who is now retired having founded the Hargreaves Lansdown financial services company donated £3.2 million to the Leave.EU group. On Sunday he called on Theresa May to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK as a "gesture" to negotiators in Brussels.
Arron Banks — £8,106, 375
Multi-millionaire Banks was a co-founder of pro-Brexit group Leave.EU and gave over a million pounds to the UK Independence Party while it was led by his friend Nigel Farage. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Southern Rock Insurance Company in 2014 and claims to control interest in a South African diamond mine.
