Climate science denier Lord Lawsonโs appointment as chairman to the Vote Leave EU referendum campaign group has caused further division amongst Eurosceptics as the campaignโs leading Labour MP Kate Hoey and the Green Partyโs Baroness Jenny Jones both withdraw support for the group.
Both Baroness Jones (pictured) and Hoey continue to support Britain leaving the EU but will not endorse Vote Leave to be the officially designated โOutโ campaign.
As Baroness Jones wrote on Twitter: โWill vote to leave #EU but canโt work with an organisation with so little judgement as to put Lawson at itsย head.โ
When asked in response by one Twitter user โisn’t the point we have to work with people we disagree on other things?โ Baroness Jones replied saying Lawson โis a bully as well as too embarassing to workย with.โ
I constantly work with disagreeable people on single issues. But Lawson is embarrassingly deluded on Climate Change. https://t.co/3X0erH36n4
โ Jenny Jones (@GreenJennyJones) February 5, 2016
Lawson was named the new chairman last week after John Mills, the chairman at the time and a Labour supporter, wrote to Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings accusing him of โgenerating more and more ill feeling.โ
The groupโs splintering prompted both UKIPโs Nigel Farage and UKIP donor Arron Banks, founder of the rival Leave.EU, to accuse Vote Leave of having โno real cross-party supportโ.
Lawsonโs new chairmanship is the latest example of climate science deniers taking the charge when it comes to leading the Brexit campaign. Catch up with all ofย DeSmogย UKโs coverage here:
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