Arron Banks allowed to appeal over lost libel action against Carole Cadwalladr

Banks, pictured, raised five grounds on which he said Mrs Justice Steyn had made a wrong decision, of which one was accepted as the basis for an appeal. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

The multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks has been granted permission to appeal against the judge’s decision in his unsuccessful libel action against the Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr.

Banks, who funded the pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign group, raised five grounds on which he said Mrs Justice Steyn had made a wrong decision in her judgment relating to comments Cadwalladr made about him in a Ted talk and a tweet, both in 2019.