Meet The Team Behind Britain’s Next Chapter.

John Redwood is a leading writer and analyst on the world economy, markets and geo politics. He writes a daily blog www.johnredwoodsdiary.com,and has published many books on Net Zero, global capitalism, the Credit Crunch of 2008, privatisation, populist politics and the European project. He set up an Investment management business, sold it to a large quoted company and became their Chief Global Strategist. He has chaired two large industrial companies. He was an MP and UK Cabinet Minister. He is now a member of the House of Lords, a Privy Counsellor, and a frequent media and newspaper commentator. He is bringing out a new book on what is Conservatism in a populist age.

Dr Richard Johnson is an academic specialising in electoral politics, constitutions, and Labour Party history. He is the author and editor of several books, including Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 and Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom. He is the co-host of the podcast ‘Since Attlee & Churchill’. He has written widely in the press about the Labour Party, the British constitution, and euroscepticism, including in Tribune, The Guardian, The Spectator, The Telegraph, and UnHerd. He has been a Labour Party member since 2009 and stood for the party locally on several occasions.

Julian Jessop is an independent economist with nearly four decades of experience gained in the public sector, the City and consultancy, including stints at HM Treasury, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, and Capital Economics. He now works mainly with investment committees and with thinktanks, notably the Institute of Economic Affairs, and is a regular commentator in the media.  

Julian has provided expert testimony to parliamentary select committees on many topics, including Brexit, and is well known around both Westminster and Whitehall. He has a First Class degree in Economics from Cambridge University and further qualifications in both economics and law.

David Frost, the Rt Hon Lord Frost of Allenton CMG, is a politician and former British diplomat. A leading Eurosceptic, he served as the UK’s Chief Negotiator for Exiting the European Union (2019–2020) under Boris Johnson, securing the revised Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and Trade and Cooperation Agreement. He then joined the Cabinet as Minister responsible for EU relations in 2021, before resigning in protest against the handling of the COVID pandemic.

Educated at St John’s College, Oxford, Frost had a distinguished Foreign Office career, including postings in Europe and as Ambassador to Denmark. He later became CEO of the Scotch Whisky Association, a major UK trade association.

A prominent campaigner for freedom and free market economics, he now sits as a non-affiliated peer and serves as a Senior Policy Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Brendan Chilton is a British Labour politician, councillor, and prominent left-wing Eurosceptic. He has served as a Labour councillor on Ashford Borough Council in Kent since 2011, representing Stanhope ward, and is currently Leader of the Labour Group.

A former parliamentary candidate for Ashford, Chilton was a leading figure in the Labour Leave campaign group ahead of the 2016 EU referendum. He served as its Chair and General Secretary, advocating for Brexit and urging Labour to respect the referendum result. He runs his own consulting businesses, is the CEO of a renewables company, and works on encouraging FDI into Commonwealth nations. Brendan has written and commented extensively on politics, economics, and the need for Labour to reconnect with working-class voters.

Gawain Howard Wilkinson Towler is a British politician, political strategist, and journalist renowned for his role in Eurosceptic movements. A long-standing ally of Nigel Farage, he served as Press Officer and Director of Communications for UKIP (2004–2018), then for the Brexit Party/Reform UK (2019–2024).

Educated at Clayesmore School and the University of York (BA Philosophy), Towler worked as a journalist before entering politics. He stood as a UKIP candidate in European elections and has been a key figure in communications and crisis management on the right. In 2025, he was elected to Reform UK’s Governing Board. He runs his own strategic communications consultancy and remains an active commentator on British politics.

Paul Embery is a firefighter and trade union activist. He was the national organiser of Trade Unionists Against the EU and was prominent in the Leave campaign during the EU referendum.

Paul has been a member of the Labour Party since 1994 and is active in the Blue Labour movement. He has written widely about the growing disconnect between the working-class and the Left, including in his 2020 book ‘Despised: why the modern Left loathes the working class’.

Paul is a regular commentator on GB News.

Claire Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley, is a crossbench member of the House of Lords, the director of the Academy of Ideas, and the former MEP for the North West England constituency. She is also visiting professor in professional practice at the University of Buckingham, and the co-founder of the residential summer school, The Academy. 

Claire is a frequent media commentator on issues of culture, education, media and free speech, appearing on BBC’s Newsnight, Politics Live and Any Questions? as well as a frequent guest on Times Radio, Talk TV and GB News.

David Campbell Bannerman is a British Conservative politician and long-standing Eurosceptic. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 2009 to 2019, initially with UKIP and later with the Conservatives.

Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, he was educated at Bryanston School, the University of Edinburgh (MA Economics and Politics), and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. A former Conservative councillor and Bow Group chairman, he joined UKIP in 2004, serving as Party Chairman and Deputy Leader (2006–2010). He defected back to the Conservatives in 2011.

He has held roles in groups such as Conservatives for Britain and Leave Means Leave, and currently chairs the Conservative Democratic Organisation and The Freedom Association. A distant relative of former Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman, he remains active in Eurosceptic and free-market advocacy.

Brian Monteith is an experienced campaigner and communicator. He co-founded the student campaign against devolution in the 1979 referendum – and later in the 1997 Scottish referendum established the vote No No campaign. In the 80s he started his professional PR career in the City, in the 90s he provided consultancy in Edinburgh and London and, after an eight year hiatus as a member of the Scottish Parliament, worked in Africa and the Caribbean. He was Head of Press for Leave EU in 2016 and as an MEP was Brexit Party Chief Whip 2019/20. He writes regularly for The Scotsman and Telegraph.

Sir William “Bill” Cash CH is a veteran British Conservative politician and prominent Eurosceptic. He served as Member of Parliament from 1984 to 2024, first for Stafford and then for Stone in Staffordshire.

Educated at Stonyhurst College and Lincoln College, Oxford, Cash qualified as a solicitor and ran his own legal practice. A fierce critic of European integration, he played a leading role in the Maastricht Treaty rebellions and campaigned for Brexit. Knighted in 2014 and appointed a Companion of Honour, he became one of the longest-serving MPs in the Commons before ultimately retiring in 2024.

Anne Marie Morris (born 5 July 1957) is a British politician and lawyer. She served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Newton Abbot from 2010 to 2024.

Educated at Bryanston School, Dorset, and Hertford College, Oxford (where she read law), Morris worked as a solicitor before entering politics. She was first elected with a narrow majority in 2010 and increased it substantially in subsequent elections. During her parliamentary career she served on influential select committees including Health and Social Care, Treasury, and Work and Pensions.

In 2025 she joined Reform UK, where she leads on social care policy, and works as a geopolitical risk adviser

Andrew Rosindell MP has represented Romford since 2001, securing re-election seven times. A long‑standing member of the Conservative Party, he joined Reform UK in January 2026. Influenced by Margaret Thatcher, he has been a longstanding Eurosceptic, and champion of the sovereignty of Parliament and the British constitution. He previously served as Director of the European Foundation (1997–2001) under the chairmanship of Sir Bill Cash. A prominent supporter of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, he opposed Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement as one of the ‘Brexit Spartans’. Andrew has spent much of his career on foreign affairs, serving on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (2010–2024) and as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs (2024-2026).

Robert Tombs is an academic historian at Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of St John’s College. He specializes in 19^th and 20^th century French history, has served on the Conseil Franco-Britannique, and is a holder of the French Palmes Académiques.  He also writes on British history, in The English and Their History (Allen Lane, 2014) and This Sovereign Isle: Britain in and out of Europe (Allen Lane, 2021), and is presently writing a book on the Union. He is a frequent political commentator in the British and international media and co-editor of the website Briefings for Britain.

James is a lawyer with specialism in  intellectual property, trade, digital compliance, judicial review, election law and data protection.  He was a Police Tribunal Chairman for 10 years.  He has litigated all IP rights before the courts of several countries. He is a qualified Arbitrator and Mediator member of the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC). For many years he has been an ad hoc advisor to MPs and Ministers, and is an independent councillor in the City of London.

Hilary is the Greater Manchester coordinator for the Social Democratic Party and co-host of the podcast “Take Me Home”. She is treasurer of her crown green bowling league and an active member of the Friends of her local park, where she leads gardening and community activities. She serves on the organising committee of the Battle of Ideas festival in London and helped bring the event to Manchester with the first Battle of Ideas North. 

During her career, Hilary was a founder of First Actuarial and became widely known as the actuary advising the trade union movement, helping deliver the collective DC pension scheme with the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail.

Rt Hon David Jones served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Wales and later as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union. From 2005 until 2024 he was Member of Parliament for the constituency of Clwyd West. A longstanding advocate of national sovereignty and democratic accountability, he played an active role in the debates surrounding the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union and led the Vote Leave campaign in Wales during the 2016 referendum. He now works in consultancy and public policy and continues to contribute to the debate on constitutional reform and the future governance of the United Kingdom.

Bob runs his own management consultancy in finance and banking, and is an expert on the off-balance-sheet financing mechanisms of the EU, and the threat they pose both to EU member states and to the global financial system. He has also written on the total cost of EU membership, the UK’s residual liabilities to the EU after Brexit, and the hidden subsidies afforded by the UK to other member states due to Freedom of Movement and Freedom of Incorporation, which remain ongoing. Bob holds a Cambridge B.A. First in Modern languages and an Open University M.A. Distinction in History.

Lord Grayling is a former Secretary of State for Justice and Transport and Leader of the House of Commons. He was the first Cabinet Minister to declare for Brexit in 2016 and played a leading role in the campaign to leave the European Union. He was MP for Epsom and Ewell for 23 years and became a life peer in the Dissolution Honours list in 2024.

Bepi Pezzulli is a corporate counsel, board adviser, and academic with international experience across finance, government, and industry. His research focuses on the use of economic and financial power in foreign policy and national security. His analyses have appeared on CNBC, Rai News, Sky News, Milano Finanza, the NATO Defense College Foundation, The American Banker, The American Thinker, CityAM, The Critic, The Times of Israel, and Bloomberg terminals. He is the Research Editor at Longitude Magazine. He currently serves as Director of Research at Italia Atlantica, a Councillor of the Great British PAC, and a member of Advance UK’s College.

Christopher Howarth has worked in the corridors of Westminster for over fifteen turbulent years of politics. Working for an influential group of MPs and as a special adviser in the Home Office, advising Ministers on defence and foreign policy in and out of Government, working on leadership campaigns and standing for Parliament. Christopher has seen it all. His book inhabits a world between fact and fiction. Christopher studied Medieval History at St Andrews University, Law at York and has spent ten years in the Territorial Army. He is the author of the political thriller ‘The Durian Pact’ based on his time in politics.

James Frayne has held senior roles in Government, campaigns and in the corporate world.

James founded the respected research agency Public First in 2016 and co-ran it for nearly a decade. Before this, he was Director of Communications at the Department for Education and Director of Strategy at the Policy Exchange think tank.

At the start of his career, James was Campaign Director of the successful campaign against the proposed Regional Assembly in the North East. He was also Campaign Director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance and worked on the campaign against Britain joining the single currency.

Claire Bullivant is a writer, journalist, marketeer, and media entrepreneur working across broadcasting, political advocacy, and digital innovation. She champions small-c conservative voices and British values on the global stage. After 15 years in the US, she returned to the UK in 2020 to found Conservative Post, a digital platform with a strong grassroots following, and co-founded the CDO, advancing accountability and member-led reform. As CEO of the Great British PAC, she has led and coordinated high-profile judicial reviews and spearheaded patriotic campaigns, including support for the Chagossians’ right to self-determination and ensuring the Chagos Islands remain British. She is known for fearless commentary, strategic insight, and media leadership.

Ben Philips is Deputy Chairman and Communications Director of CIBUK.Org – the UK’s longest-running membership organisation for sovereignty, democracy and freedom.
Founder-owner of a family-run hospitality business with a background in investment banking,

Ben now channels his passion for communication and abiding interest in public affairs into an on-going campaign advocating the UK’s full departure from the European Union.