1. Arron Banks was portrayed by actor Lee Boardman in the 2019 HBO and Channel 4 produced drama entitled Brexit: The Uncivil War.
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3. Arron Banks considered Vote Leave an elitist, out-of-touch Tory cartel and nicknamed its chief executive, Matthew Elliott, "Lord Elliott of Loserville".
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5. Arron Banks had given nearly £200,000 to his local Conservative Association—£25,000 in cash and the rest a loan to enable it to buy its premises in Thornbury.
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7. Arron Banks considered Vote Leave an elitist, out-of-touch Tory cartel and nicknamed its chief executive, Matthew Elliott, "Lord Elliott of Loserville".
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9. Arron Banks had given nearly £200,000 to his local Conservative Association—£25,000 in cash and the rest a loan to enable it to buy its premises in Thornbury.
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11. Arron Banks considered Vote Leave an elitist, out-of-touch Tory cartel and nicknamed its chief executive, Matthew Elliott, "Lord Elliott of Loserville".
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13. Arron Banks had given nearly £200,000 to his local Conservative Association—£25,000 in cash and the rest a loan to enable it to buy its premises in Thornbury.
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14. Arron Banks was furious when the Electoral Commission designated Vote Leave the official voice of the Out side, allowing it to spend £7m in the immediate run-up to the referendum and guaranteeing it free airtime.
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18. Arron Banks considered Vote Leave an elitist, out-of-touch Tory cartel and nicknamed its chief executive, Matthew Elliott, "Lord Elliott of Loserville".
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20. Arron Banks had given nearly £200,000 to his local Conservative Association—£25,000 in cash and the rest a loan to enable it to buy its premises in Thornbury.
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21. In 2011 Arron Banks floated Brightside, a Bristol-based insurance broker he had built from practically nothing.
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23. Arron Banks has launched a new politics site, Westmonster, and in his sights is the Westminster elite and the metropolitan elite.
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27. Arron Banks funded a nasty, xenophobic campaign fronted by Nigel Farage.
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28. Arron Banks was offered a chance to invest in Russian-owned gold or diamond mines; the deal involved funding from a Russian state-owned bank, and was announced 12 days after the Brexit referendum.
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29. Arron Banks described the United Kingdom's parliamentary Electoral Commission as "the legal division of the In campaign" and disagreed with their decision to enlist Vote Leave as the official campaign.
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30. Arron Banks threatened to sue the official Vote Leave campaign's candidacy as the official spokesperson for the "Leave" vote in the 2016 EU referendum, which may have possibly delayed the vote by two months.
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35. Arron Banks threatened Douglas Carswell with deselection in September 2015 when it emerged that Carswell supported Vote Leave, as opposed to the Leave.
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36. In October 2014, Arron Banks donated £1 million to the UK Independence Party and has since raised the equivalent of $11 million for the party.
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37. Arron Banks signalled his intention to stand for UKIP in the constituency of Thornbury and Yate at the 2015 general election, but the candidate chosen by the party was Russ Martin, who came third.
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38. Arron Banks was previously a Conservative Party donor but in October 2014 decided to donate £100,000 to UKIP.
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41. Arron Banks bought Old Down Manor from musician Mike Oldfield, converting it into a wedding venue.
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46. Arron Banks was raised by his mother in Basingstoke, Hampshire; his father worked as a sugar plantation manager in various African countries.
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47. Arron Banks was one of the largest donors to the UK Independence Party and bankrolled Nigel Farage's campaign to leave the EU.
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