UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court

UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court

A lawsuit alleging that ex-UKIP leader Richard Braine took part in blackmail and data breaches has been all but thrown out of the High Court as a judge said it was "without any proper and sound evidential foundation".


The case was brought after a collapse in internal party discipline late last year led to a comical merry-go-round of suspensions and unsuspensions, as we reported at the time.


Amid rival political factions struggling for control of the right-wing party – which launched Nigel Farage's political career before the televisually omnipresent Brexiteer split off to form his own movement – Braine was accused of illicitly accessing party figures' email accounts and the party membership database.



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