NIGEL'S NEW CREW
A former lads’ mag editor. An upper-crust actress. The ex-boss of Asda. Meet the very mixed bunch heading to Brussels
JAMES GLANCY, 38
AS a captain in the royal marines and in the elite Special Boat Service, he did three combat tours in Afghanistan and was awarded the second highest military medal, the conspicuous Gallantry cross, for leadership and bravery. runs a conservation charity, Veterans 4 Wildlife, focusing on the preservation of African wildlife.
BELINDA DE CAMBORNE LUCY, 42
PORTRAYS herself as a humble mother-of-four but in fact is a friend of Lady kitty Spencer, princess Diana’s niece. She is married to a wealthy private equity specialist and attends polo tournaments. claims she is an actress but has an empty page on IMDB, the online guide for film and TV content. currently studying for a master’s degree in EU law, she once said she wants to bring ‘love and peace’ to the pro-Brexit campaign.
ANNUNZIATA REES-MOGG, 40
JACOB’S little sister previously lost in the 2010 General election when she stood for parliament as a tory. David cameron urged her to ‘de-toff’ her name to ‘ Nancy’ but she refused, preferring her birth name which refers to the Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin mary of her impending motherhood. Aged eight, she canvassed for the tories, although she said her classmates disdained her blue rosette, wishing it was a Blue peter badge.
MARTIN DAUBNEY, 48
ONE-TIME editor of the lads’ magazine Loaded, he prided himself on its anti-feminist agenda. the self-styled controversialist once organised a ‘Straight pride’ march and took acid to celebrate LSD’s 40th anniversary. A coalminer’s son who says: ‘I hate people who go to dinner parties.’
LANCE FORMAN, 57
NICKNAMED the ‘smoked salmon millionaire’ for running Britain’s oldest fish curing plant. During the election campaign, Forman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, found a 30ft swastika sprayed on his east London business HQ.
CLAIRE FOX, 58
A Former revolutionary communist elected in an area that includes Warrington where two boys were killed and 56 other people were injured by an IrA bomb in 1993 – an attack she won’t condemn. A long-time panellist on radio 4’s moral maze, she has said that child pornography should not be removed from the internet.
LUCY HARRIS, 29
SOPRANO singer who studied classical music at Guildhall conservatoire in London. Says her singing is ‘a sign of a deeper ability to communicate’. However, she has used less tuneful language in her campaigning, describing some remainer critics as ‘cr*p’.
JUNE MUMMERY, 55
BOSS of a Suffolk fish market auctioneers who likens herself to Boudica, the great warrior Queen who led a doomed British uprising against roman rule.
ANN WIDDECOMBE, 71
DEFECTED from the tories after 55 years of loyal party service. Won a new generation of younger admirers with a self-deprecating comedy turn in TV’s Strictly come Dancing and celebrity Big Brother. A catholic and cat-lover who at heart believes passionately that everyone should be given the best chance in life.
JOHN LONGWORTH, 61
Former boss of Asda and tesco who was forced to stand down as director general of the British chambers of commerce for backing Brexit.
NATHAN GILL, 45
ONCE ran a care home company, employing staff mainly from poland and the philippines. Denied this recruitment policy conflicted with the hardline stance on immigration of Ukip for which he was an mep. the firm collapsed after the 2008 banking crisis. A climate change denier who says wind power is ‘completely stupid’. Has five children with his American wife, and they are mormons.
BENYAMIN HABIB, 54
A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE property developer who has described the financial volatility surrounding Brexit as an opportunity. the day after the EU referendum he said: ‘the pound would fall in value… our [company’s] income streams would go up. We are quids in.’
ALEXANDRA PHILLIPS, 35
Former chief spokesman for Nigel Farage when they were with Ukip. In 2015, Farage’s then wife was furious when she discovered phillips on the sofa with her husband in the family home. She and Farage denied a physical relationship. In 2016, she defected to the tories, saying she was hugely impressed by what theresa may said about Brexit. But then switched party again, to Farage’s new outfit.
RUPERT LOWE, 61
Former chairman of Southampton Fc. Unpopular with many fans who said the only thing he knew was how not to run a football club. In the 1997 General election he stood for Jimmy Goldsmith’s referendum party. He was a highprofile supporter of Vote Leave during the referendum.
BRIAN MONTEITH, 61
A SCOTTISH onetime thatcherite who says environmentalist protesters ‘ imperil recent improvements in global living conditions’. He added: ‘If we want to avoid extinction, extinguishing socialism in all its guises should be our priority.’ Dismisses criticism that he lives hundreds of miles from constituents, in France.