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About CIBUK.Org – Who We Are

The Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIBUK) is a non-party political campaigning organisation of people from all walks of life. It is the UK’s longest-running membership organisation for independence, sovereignty, democracy and freedom.

For over 55 years the CIBUK has made a significant contribution in campaigning on issues important to the majority of our population, and in securing our exit from the European Union. Now it’s time for the next chapter.

CIBUK is on the up again

We are pleased to announce developments at CIBUK which we are sure you will warmly welcome. Our aims and objectives are:

1. To campaign for the restoration of full national sovereignty to the United Kingdom by withdrawal from the remaining obligations which subject the United Kingdom to the direct effect of European Union law so that Parliament may legislate freely and to co-operate with other nations as it thinks fit;
2. To oppose any cession of sovereignty from the United Kingdom or any of its constituent parts to the European Union or to other supranational bodies without the direct consent of its people by way of referendum and to expose the operations and activities of those bodies that run contrary to the interests of the United Kingdom and its people;
3. To campaign for the preservation of British values of respect, tolerance and individual liberty; encouraging the drive to take full advantage of the opportunities that are available to our country; and promoting the United Kingdom as a shining beacon of independence, freedom, democracy, and enterprise in an ever-changing world.

Britain’s relationship with the European Union is one that sits above party politics and one doesn’t have to be a member of any particular political party. In CIBUK we have members from all the major political parties, trades unionists, environmentalists, businessmen, students, journalists as well as members of both Houses of Parliament who are united in their belief that Britain’s membership of the European Union was a great error for this country.

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Officers

Chairman: Leigh Evans

In addition to being our Chairman, Leigh is also Chairman and Founder of Facts4EU.Org, the most prolific researcher and publisher of Brexit facts in the world for the last 10 years. Formerly Vice-Chairman of the Brexit Coalition, he is currently Chairman of the Global Discussion Forum, Chairman of the China Analysis Group, Vice-Chairman of a City think-tank, and was recently honoured to be invited to become Hon. Ambassador, UK and Europe, for Australians for Better Government.

Leigh was a Founder and Director of several successful companies and was non-executive Director of many others, including a PLC. He has been a Life Fellow of the RSA since 1993, by nomination by Council.

Since his appointment in 2022 Leigh has brought a dynamism and vitality to CIBUK and has assembled a great team to drive us forward.

Deputy Chairman, Honorary Secretary and Membership Secretary: Ben Philips

Ben is the founder-owner of a family-run hospitality business with a background in investment banking and financial services. With a passion for communication and an abiding interest in public affairs, Ben is delighted to combine the two as Communications Director for CIBUK. On the retirement of our Hon. Secretary for many years, Jim Reynolds, Ben kindly agreed to step up and take on this role in addition to his other duties for CIBUK.

His published work includes everything from equity trade-data analysis reports, to client service-level agreements, to promotional marketing material. For the previous two years he had been working for a private firm in the Brexit space, churning our daily material to a select audience of influential commentators.

More recently he has been submitting regular news bulletins and press releases on behalf of CIBUK. He is enthusiastic about the rapid rejuvenation of CIBUK and his fellow Officers are delighted to welcome him to the Management Team.

Vice-Chairmen

Stuart Notholt, a long-standing Committee member

Anthony Scholefield, director of the think tank Futurus

Vice-Presidents

Lord Pearson of Rannoch was made a life peer on 18 June 1990 for services to the insurance industry, sitting as a Conservative. He is  the co-founder of a pro free trade think-tank, Global Britain, which publishes research on the BBC’s EU coverage and on the cost of UK membership and is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance. He was leader of UKIP between 27 November 2009 and August 2010 and has done extensive charitable work and fundraising, in particular for the Camphill movement.

Lord Vinson of Roddam was made a life peer on 7 February 1985. He is a British businessman who began a small plastics company in 1952 called ‘Plastics Coatings’ in Guildford, for which he won the Queen’s Award for Industry in 1971. He worked at the Centre for Policy Studies between 1974 and 1980.

Honorary President

Edward Spalton was our Chairman for many years.  He was a corn merchant and animal feed miller, supplying the livestock industry. In 1981 he started his own company making appetite stimulants and feed flavours for farm animals and domestic pets. He is now retired from business.

He became a member of the UK Independence Party in 1994 and stood as a candidate for the East Midlands to the European Parliament in 1999. He also stood in the 2005 General Election in South Derbyshire as a candidate for Veritas “because I have always voted at elections and there was nobody else standing whom I could support”. He is not now a member of any political party and campaigns for British independence on a cross-party basis. He is particularly interested in Eastern European and Balkan affairs and is a member of the Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies.

Patrons

The following are Patrons of The Campaign for an Independent Britain:

CIBUK National Committee

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