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Robbie Gibb’s appointment shows how No 10 wants to politicise the BBC Some of the broadcaster’s staff are troubled by the appointment of an ideological Brexiteer to a supposedly neutral body. Boris Johnson’s government has appointed a known partisan to the BBC board, in an overt bid to politicise a governance body supposed to be free from political influence. Robbie Gibb, a former aide to two Tory politicians – he served as Theresa May’s director of communications in No 10, and as chief of staff to former Tory shadow chancellor Francis Maude in the 1990s – has been made the b...

The Brexit campaign website Leave.eu has been suspended pending an investigation after trying to set up shop in Ireland in a bid to preserve its .eu domain name.  Faced with becoming site with a .uk web address - Leave.uk, in effect -  after the UK left the EU, attempts were made to register the website in Waterford. Leave.eu, founded by Brexiteer Arron Banks and supported by former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, attempted to move the registration from the UK to Ireland on New Year's Eve after a rule stated that addresses can only be used by companies if they are based in the EU...

‘Internexit’ for Leave.EU as domain name temporarily suspended Alex Hern © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters Leave.EU has been forced to “Internexit” after the group’s EU domain name was temporarily suspended. It comes after the Irish businessman in whose name the pro-Brexit campaign group’s domain name is registered denied having any involvement with the organisation. Now visitors to the site are greeted with an error message, and the EU’s online registry marks the domain as under a server hold, meaning it is “temporarily inactive and u...

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news 'Outrage': Row after pro-Brexit group moves its website back into EU Africanews 15/01/2021 © Jonathan Brady/PA via AP, file The Leave.eu campaign was co-founded by British businessman Arron Banks. A group that campaigned for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union has claimed, without evidence, that its website has been shut down by the Irish government. The official webpage for the Leave.eu campaign was unavailable on Friday evening. The pro-Brexit group has faced criticism for migrating the address of its .eu domain name back into the EU, from the UK to Ireland. Website do...