Then late on the Sunday night, in a spectacularly ill-timed boardroom coup, two emails told the two organisers of the People’s Vote campaign they were fired. Timeline People's vote campaign Show Hide People’s Vote campaign formally launches in Camden, north London, at an event fronted by four MPs from four different parties: Chuka Umunna, Anna Soubry, Layla Moran and Caroline Lucas. A People’s Vote march in London, coinciding with a special Saturday sitting of parliament, attracts an estimated 100,000 people. The recipients of the emails were a stunned James McGrory, the director of the People’s Vote campaign, and its communications director, Tom Baldwin. Nine months later, the People’s Vote campaign emerged: (the name, McGrory says, came from the Green MP Caroline Lucas over an early planning dinner).

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2019 06:00 UTC