Skinny dipping with Nigel Farage, punching a business partner, and bankrolling Brexit - Edward Stourton tells the story of Arron Banks. What next for the man who spent more than £7 million campaigning for Britain to leave the EU? Producers: Ed Davey and Joe Kent.
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Folge vom 10.12.2016Arron Banks
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Folge vom 03.12.2016Sharon WhiteOn Profile this week Mark Coles looks at the life and career of Sharon White.The daughter of immigrant parents who came to Britain from Jamaica in the 1950s, she rose rapidly through the ranks of the civil service to become one of the most powerful women in Whitehall. In March 2015, she became chief executive of the communications regulator, Ofcom.The watchdog is in the news this week for trying to force BT to legally separate from Open Reach which runs the country's broadband network.
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Folge vom 26.11.2016Michel BarnierBrexit negotiations between the EU and the UK are months away. And - as we keep hearing - there will be no discussion before notification (of the now infamous Article 50).But we do know who will represent the EU in those negotiations: the French politician Michel Barnier, who met his counterpart David Davis this week.Born in the Savoie region in south-east France, Barnier has been a committed Gaullist since he was a teenager. At 27 he made history in France by becoming the youngest MP ever elected. And in 1992 he took great pride in bringing the Winter Olympics to his region.His allies say he is a reasonable, sensitive negotiator. His critics tell us he can be self-important and cold. Everyone agrees he will be fiercely committed to defending the EU's interests in the complex Brexit negotiations ahead.Presenter: Becky Milligan Producers: Smita Patel and Alex Burton.
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Folge vom 19.11.2016Stephen BannonOn Profile this week, Mark Coles, examines the life and career of Stephen Bannon - dubbed by some as the 'most powerful, most dangerous political operative in America today'. A former US Navy engineer, investment banker and Hollywood producer, for the past four years he's been the driving force behind Breitbart News - a populist, at times deliberately provocative right wing news website. In August, he was drafted in to oversee Donald Trump's then faltering presidential campaign.Now, with Trump heading to the White House, he's been appointed the President Elect's new Chief Strategist. Democrats and civil rights groups are appalled. They accuse Bannon of creating a platform for far right views, fostering racism and anti-semitism.Nonsense, say his supporters. He's simply a patriot, fed up with the way his country has been governed in the past by progressive liberal elites.