The billionaire George Soros has long been a hate figure for the global alt-right online. Now he has also elicited negative attention from UK Brexiteers.
The Hungarian-American investor, 87, is said to be worth $8 billion after donating $18 billion to his philanthropic agency Open Society Foundations last year. One of the subgroups of this agency is a Remain-backing organisation, which has drawn the attention of Leave champions.
Reports today about Brexiteer anger with Mr Soros are the latest in a line of grumbles about his support for continued UK membership of the EU. Arron Banks, the founder of the Leave.EU pro-Brexit campaign, last October derided Mr Soros as a “globalist” and “an expert in ‘dark money’ ” after Open Democracy, a group funded by