- Prominent Brexit campaigner and potential Reform UK candidate Arron Banks has hired private intelligence firm Precision Risk and Intelligence to spy on business rivals and journalists.
- As part of a seven-year dispute, Banks directed the private investigators to launch a whistleblowing operation targeting staff at insurance company Talanx and legal firm Kennedys to uncover alleged misconduct.
- The same intelligence firm was previously engaged by Banks to monitor Sunday Times journalists who were investigating Nigel Farage and other key figures inside Reform UK.
- Nigel Farage recently announced that he is working with Banks to reactivate the Leave.EU campaign group to counter efforts aimed at rejoining or aligning with the European Union.
- Banks defended his actions regarding the journalists while declining to comment on the dispute with Talanx and Kennedys, though he confirmed discussions about running as a Reform UK parliamentary candidate.
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