Bristol businessman Arron Banks has lost a libel case he brought against journalist Carole Cadwalladr over her claims he'd lied about his Brexit campaign links to Russia.
The businessman, who owned a number of insurance companies in north Bristol and was the biggest financial backer of the Leave.EU campaign in the 2016 Brexit campaign, had sued the freelance journalist over a claim she made in a TED Talk.
In that April 2019 talk, about her investigations into the Brexit campaign in 2016, Ms Cadwalladr had said: "On more than one occasion Mr Banks told untruths about a secret relationship he had with the Russian government in relation to acceptance of foreign funding of electoral campaigns in breach of the law on such funding."
