Leave Means Leave/Britain Means Business

Leave Means Leave was a cross-party campaign group founded in 2016 by Richard Tice and businessman John Longworth to push for a "hard" Brexit. It has since rebranded as Britain Means Business in May 2020, and is now under investigation by the Metropolitan Police over donations to Reform. Leave Means Leave's advisory board included Conservative, Labour (Graham Stringer) and DUP MPs. In early 2020, having solicited donations from supporters for a Brexit "celebration event" in Trafalgar Square, Leave Means Leave - by then controlled solely by Tice - donated £990,000 to the Brexit Party (now Reform UK), making it the party's single largest donation following the 2019 general election. Transparency International UK said registering as a limited company had enabled Leave Means Leave to obscure the ultimate source of donations. The company was later renamed Britain Means Business Ltd and has continued making donations to Reform, with total donations reaching £1.7 million by June 2024. In July 2026, it was reported that the Metropolitan Police had launched an investigation into donations made by Britain Means Business to Reform UK in the run-up to the 2024 general election, following a referral by the Electoral Commission. The investigation centres on £500,000 in donations funded by Fiona Cottrell - the mother of convicted fraudster and Farage confidant George Cottrell - who had transferred £1 million to Tice's company days before the donations were made.