Following The Brexit Money

An imploding Tory government, a polarised country and the possibility of a no-deal with the EU: That's the result of the Brexit vote that took place in June 2016, surprised everybody and sent shockwaves around the world. 

But many doubts still remain. Doubts about what will finally happen on 29 March 2019 but also about how the country ended up in the mess it's in right now. Especially pressing is one question: where did the Brexit money really come from?

That's what the Guardian's journalist Carole Cadwalladr has been trying to answer for the past two years—an exhausting task at every level.

Businessman Arron Banks, the biggest pro-leave donor, is the main focus of her investigations. But as she has managed to dig deeper and deeper, she has found links between Banks and his unofficial leave campaign, and Russia.

In the podcast Cadwalladr talks about the pressure she has received from many fronts ever since she started publishing: from social media abuse, to a letter by the Russian Embassy. The journalist also reflects on the intents of her critics to portray her as a mad woman, a smear campaign in which even a famous BBC politics presenter has participated.

However, the justice is picking up on her investigations. The last development as reported by the Guardian:

The  National Crime Agency would look into suspicions that a “number of criminal offences may have been committed”, the Electoral Commission said in a statement, saying there were reasonable grounds to suspect Banks was “not the true source” of £8m in funding to the Leave.EU campaign.

And even though the pressure on her doesn't stop and as the Brexit tragedy unfolds, Cadwalladr continues reporting on the story.