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Catching up with the second referendum mob
SOLOMON HUGHES looks up the abortive movement for a ‘people’s vote’ run by corporate creatures, New Labour hacks, Lib Dems and other transient centrists, whose main campaign groups still exist, despite losing both the referendum and the 2019 election
Alastair Campbell addresses a People's Vote rally at New Dock Hall in Leeds

THE main “people’s vote” organisation is over three months late filing its accounts at Companies House, further underlining the way the second referendum campaign, which dominated the “liberal” press and became a huge conflict within the Labour Party, has now disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Top corporate PR executive Roland Rudd has controlled Open Britain, the main second referendum campaign organisation, since a “boardroom coup” last November.

Rudd is founder and chairman of PR firm Finsbury, which specialises in “corporate governance guidance” and “financial communications” — yet his own organisation is breaking company rules.

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