nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
Leave.EU

Leave.EU is a self-proclaimed 'grassroots' movement for Brexit. It played a leading role in the 'out' campaign in the run up to Britain's referendum on its membership of the European Union in June 2016.
It says it is 'remaining active throughout the UK’s exit negotiations to make sure that those in power get the best deal possible for the UK' and 'will be running a dedicated office for a successful exit from the EU for the next two years, and beyond if necessary.' 
==People==
*Arron Banks, co-founder and donor
*Richard Tice, co-founder and donor
*Liz Bilney, CEO; although donor Arron Banks is seen as controling the group's operation.HP Sauce 'Rockers & High Rollers: Leave.EU funding', Private Eye, accessed 11 April 2016 
*Andrew Wigmore, head of communications
*Brian Monteith, head of press; seconded to the campaign from Global Britain, the business campaign for leaving the EU, where he was comms director. A former Conservative member of the Scottish Parliament, Monteith played an active role in all three Scottish referenda in 1979, 1997 and 2015.
==Hired agencies==
*Goddard Gunster, US public affairs and referendum specialist
*Cambridge Analytica, Washington DC, New York and London-based firm specialising in data and behaviour-driven work on elections.
==Major Donors==
*Arron Banks: loaned Leave.EU £6m
*Peter Hargreaves, donated £3.2m on 9 March 2016 Electoral Commission Donor Search, accessed 12 May 2016
==Contacts==
:Websites: https://leave.eu; http://www.westmonster.com
:Address: Lysander House, Catbrain Lane, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol BS10 7TQ
==Notes==
 
Category: astroturf Category: Brexit Category: UKCategory:Brexit lobby group - Leave
Leave Means Leave

Leave Means Leave is a lobby group set up in the wake of the EU referendum to campaign for a 'hard' Brexit, including leaving the European single market and ending free movement.
Its slogan is 'the campaign for a clean Brexit'. Among its supporters are Nigel Lawson, Conservative peer and founder of the climate sceptic Global Warming Policy Foundation, and Tory MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg and John Redwood.
Leave Means Leave and its ilk have been described as 'the British equivalent of America’s National Rifle Association': they are well funded; deeply entrenched in their respective countries’ establishments; and wield enormous influence, despite their views being minority ones; and both view anything that smacks of compromise as the thin end of the wedge.Hardline Brexiteers are the UK’S NRA – and we can’t let them take control of the country, Independent, 19 Oct 2017 
==Activities==
Spokespeople for Leave Means Leave are regularly quoted in the British press. 
It also produced a report in September 2017 New Model Economy For A Post-Brexit Britain, co-published with Labour Leave and Economists for Free Trade.
==People==
*Richard Tice, co-chair
*John Longworth, co-chair
===Political advisory board===
*David Jones MP
*Owen Paterson MP
*Gerald Howarth, ex-MP
*Peter Bone MP
*Simon Heffer, ex-Daily Telegraph journalist; since 2015 commentator in the Sunday Telegraph. 
*David Campbell Bannerman MEP
===Supporters===
Listed supporters of Leave Means Leave (as of Nov 2017) are mainly Euroskeptic Conservative Party MPs, including those pushed out of government by the prime minister :Tory Eurosceptics push for hard Brexit, Guardian, Sept 2016
*John Whittingdale MP
*Lord Norman Lamont
*Theresa Villiers
*John Hayes MP
*Julian Lewis MP
*Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
*John Redwood MP
*Ian Paisley MP
*Bernard Jenkin MP
*Suella Fernandes MP
*Desmond Swayne MP
*Andrea Jenkyns MP
*Matt Warman MP
*Paul Scully MP
*Simon Clarke MP
*John Baron MP
*Jack Lopresti MP
*Gareth Johnson MP
*Mike Wood MP
*Peter Lilley MP
*Jim Shannon MP
*Kelvin Hopkins MP
*John Mills, founder of consumer goods giant JML, Labour donor and chair of the pro-Brexit campaign organization Labour Leave.
*Christopher Mills, UKIP business spokesman
*Angus Dalgliesh, represents Brexit lobby group Scientists for Britain
*James Gray MP
*David Amess MP
*Marcus Fysh MP
*Nigel Mills MP
*Nigel Evans MP
*Tim Loughton MP
*Christopher Chope MP
*James Cleverly MP
*Lord Howard Flight
*Andrew Bridgen MP
*Adam Holloway MP
*Patrick Barbour
*Lord Malcolm Pearson
*Sammy Wilson MP
*David Davies MP
*John Flack MEP
==Contact==
*Website: http://www.leavemeansleave.eu
*Address: 55 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QL
==Notes==
Category:UKCategory:BrexitCategory:Brexit lobby group - Leave
Lebanese Foundation for Peace

According to Trish Schuch:
:The Lebanese Foundation for Peace, a self-styled "Government of Lebanon in Exile in Jerusalem" founded by former Lebanese Forces' military intelligence officer Nagi Najjar. Najjar, a CIA consultant, testified not so long ago in support of Ariel Sharon's "complete innocence" in the Sabra and Shatila affair against charges by Human Rights Watch and regional governments. Najjar has also paired with Mossad agent Yossef Bodansky while lobbying the U.S. congress to intervene in Hezbollah-dominated south Lebanon. His NGO, The Lebanese Foundation for Peace, endorsed the AIPAC-sponsored sanctions against Syria, known as the Syria Accountability / Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003. On his LFP website featuring an Israeli flag, Najjar's "government in exile" issued an official declaration; "We, the people of Free Lebanon, thank Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom for the campaign launched by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Afffairs aimed at ousting Syria from occupying Lebanon."
==Contact==
Website: http://www.free-lebanon.com
==Related Articles & Notes==
*Trish Schuh, Faking the Case Against Syria, Counterpunch, November 18, 2005
Lee Cain

Lee Cain is a former Fleet Street journalist turned political spin doctor. He was appointed incoming UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s head of communications in July 2019. 
Cain was previously head of political press in Number 10 Downing Street from August 2017 and a press aide to Johnson during his stint as foreign secretary at the FCO from November 2017. He also worked for Johnson's successful Conservative party leadership campaign in 2019.
==Aide to environment and energy ministers==
Cain is also a former special adviser to UK environment secretary Michael Gove and his predecessor Andrea Leadsom at Defra. Leadsom was appointed the new energy secretary in July 2019.
==Brexiteer==
In 2016 Cain was the Vote Leave campaign’s head of broadcast.
==Dressed as a chicken while taunting Tories==
According to former colleagues at the Mirror, Cain 'used to dress up as Tory-ridiculing Mirror Chicken' while working at the paper in 2010. Kevin Rawlinson, Boris Johnson's spin doctor 'used to dress up as Tory-ridiculing Mirror Chicken, The Guardian, 30 July 2019, accessed same day
==Resources==
==Notes==
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Lee Davis

Lee Holly Davis has been appointed as a special adviser to Nicky Morgan in the Department for Education. Davis was appointed in October 2014 and is said to work with an “initiative aimed at promoting peace amongst school-aged children in the Middle East”. Finding NiMo Another Special Adviser www.order-order.com, 14 October 2014, accessed 14 October 2014 
==Background==
Davis is currently a governor at Friern Barnet School. She previously worked at the think-tank Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as lead researcher on educational failure. Davis prior to this was a researcher at CSJ, where she assisted with research across the policy team, particularly focusing on the voluntary sector strand of Breakthrough Britain II. Lee Holly Davis LinkedIn profile, accessed 14 October 2014 
Holly worked as a distributor care provider at Tahitian Noni International, where she managed relationships with distributors in the UK as well as international markets. Previous to this, she worked as an accommodation officer at Hosts International. 
==Notes==
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Lee Kaplan

|300px|thumb|right|Lee Kaplan, Source: [http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/lee-kaplan/ Counterjihad Report] 
Lee Kaplan is the chief editor of Defending America for Knowledge and Action (DAFKA).General Info WHO ARE WE?, DAFKA, accessed 8 April 2014.
He is a board member of the Forum for Middle East Understanding. Tax filing, Form 990, for year ending December 2014 
==Notes==
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Lee Perelstine Kagan Charitable Trust

The Lee Perelstine Kagan Charitable Trust (EIN: 65-6319038) is a 501(c)(3) non profit foundation based in Miami, Florida. It supports a number of pro-Israel causes.
==Grantees==
Organisations that have received funding from the trust include:
American Friends of Libi, American Friends of the Hebrew University, Hadassah, and PEF Israel Endowment Funds.
==Notes==
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Lee Petts

Lee Petts is the managing director of the Preston-based waste management company Remsol, founded in 2002. Lee Petts: what’s your story?, OESG, accessed 24 January 2017. The company handles a range of chemical and industrial waste, and has expanded into management of waste water from fracking, working extensively with Cuadrilla Resources and it’s joint venture partners at Centrica.
Petts is on the SME panel of the fracking front group the North West Energy Task Force (NWETF) SME panel | Lee Petts, North West Energy Task Force, accessed 24 January 2017. He is also a part of the steering group for the business group Lancashire For Shale, set up by NWETF and also funded by Cuadrilla and Centrica. Our Steering Group | Lee Petts, Lancashire For Shale, accessed 24 January 2017. 
Petts is the chairman of the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Lancashire Lee Petts appointed as chair of Lancashire branch of IoD North West, IoD, 8 June 2016, accessed 24 January 2017. , and chief executive of the Onshore Energy Services Group, a trade association formed to advance the interests of British SMEs in the supply chain that supports onshore oil and gas.
==Notes==
Category:Fracking
Lee Rowley

Lee Benjamin Rowley (born 1980) is a Conservative Party politician who was elected as the MP for North East Derbyshire at the 2017 general election. 
He defeated the sitting Labour Party MP Natascha Engel, in a seat which had been represented by Labour MPs since 1935.
Rowley is a former banker with Santander in London, where he was a Westminster councillor from 2006 to 2014.
==Stance on fracking==
‬Rowley"s constituency includes six oil and gas licence blocks, all awarded to chemical firm INEOS by the Oil and Gas Authority under the 14th licensing round in 2015. There are plans for four shale wells, one hrz frac well and 2D and 3D seismic surveying. Oil and gas: licensing rounds, GOV.uk, accessed 14 November 2016. 
In August 2017 Rowley told the Derbyshire Times that he is opposed to potential fracking by INEOS at the Bramley Moor Lane site in Marsh Lane, near Eckington, but is ‘not going to rule out fracking in principle’. 
On the specific Marsh Lane application that is the wrong application in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is the wrong application because I think that by any stretch of the imagination that part of Marsh Lane, a rural community, a small village, next to a beautiful set of fields, that is not where we want a significant amount of industrial equipment which would come with fracking.
I am going to oppose it and I am going to put my own objections against it to Derbyshire County Council and I am supporting the residents in any way I can on that.'
===Not ruling out fracking on principle however===
On fracking in general, Rowley told the paper: 'I am willing to look at fracking long term and to look at new ways of producing energy long term if they can be proven to be safe and efficient and effective for the country. I am not going to rule out fracking in principle and if other communities want to do fracking it is not for me to tell whether they can or can’t.INTERVIEW: North East Derbyshire MP, Lee Rowley, gives his views on fracking, HS2 and greenbelt, Derbyshire Times, 9 August 2017
===Chair of shale gas APPG===
In March 2018 Rowley was appointed chair of a new Westminster group, the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Impact of Shale Gas.
==Contact==
:Website:https://www.lee4ned.com/
==Resources==
*INTERVIEW: North East Derbyshire MP, Lee Rowley, gives his views on fracking, HS2 and greenbelt, Derbyshire Times, 9 August 2017
==Notes==
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Lee Scott

Lee Scott was the Conservative Party member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North from 2005 to 2015.Mr Lee Scott, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 November 2013.
Scott lost his seat in the 2015 general election to the Labour Party's Wes Streeting by 589 votes. BBC News Ilford North, accessed 22 May 2015.
==Notes==
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Lee Smith

Lee Smith is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.Lee Smith, The Weekly Standard, 30 March 2013.
==Conferences==
*21st Century Hasbara conference ‎ 
*World Summit on Counter Terrorism: Terrorism's Global Impact - ICT's 9th International Conference ‎ 
*Eighth Herzliya Conference ‎
*Herzliya 2013‎ 
==External resources==
*RightWeb Lee Smith
==Notes==
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Lee Tracey

Lee Tracey was a sometime MI6 agent best know for his role in the Profumo affair in 1963 and in the apparent 'honey trap' of Lord Lambton in 1973.
==Resources==
*https://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/journalism/newstatesman/newstatesman-1981/secrets%20that%20won%E2%80%99t%20be%20told%20.pdf
*https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/only-living-relative-of-ni-born-superspy-harold-lee-tracey-heartbroken-as-hes-located-a-week-after-funeral/38397456.html
*https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/lords-honey-trap-sting-1602620
*https://www.pressreader.com/uk/history-revealed/20161208/283824328161682
*https://www.scribd.com/document/68947276/Lobster-86
==Notes==
Lee Wright

Lee Wright is a manager at Burson Marsteller.
==Career==
After university, Wright worked for three months as an intern at The Public Affairs Company.
Between February 2008 and December 2008 he was a researcher for Labour MP, George Mudie.
Wright was then appointed account manager at Local Dialogue.
Between October 2013 and October 2014 he was an account manager at Portcullis Public Affairs. Lee Wright Linkedin, accessed 31 October 2014 
He is now a manager at Burson Marsteller. Rod Muir Power of six for Burson-Marsteller Public Affairs News, 30 October 2014, accessed 31 October 2014 
==Education==
*BA (Hons), Journalism and Politics, The University of Salford 2004 – 2007
==Notes==
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Leeds Salon

The Salons debating initiative is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. The first salon was founded in New York in 2005. Previous Events, New York salon website, accessed 31 Oct 2010 The first salon in the UK was Brighton in 2005: "The Salon revival began in 2005 when the Brighton Salon was launched by Dan Travis, Sean Bell and Rob Clowes." Calling All Great Thinkers: The East Midlands Needs You!, Derby University website, accessed 10 Dec 2010 The three comprised a book club reading Capital Vol. 1. Dan Travis, Brighton Salon website, accessed 2 Jan 2011 Manchester Salon was launched in 2006: "The Manchester Salon was inspired after a trip to London for the Battle of Ideas in 2006, and a desire to bring some of the flavour of those very engaging debates to Manchester - at least in between the annual Battle of Ideas festival."About the Salon, Manchester Salon website, accessed 31 Oct 2010 The Salons are described by the Institute of Ideas which promotes their events as “inspired by the Institute of Ideas and run independently by groups and individuals across the country.” Newsletter -June 2010, Institute of Ideas website, accessed 31 May 2010 Their organisers, speakers, themes and views are typical of the LM network and they in turn promote entities associated with the LM network such as the Battle of Ideas, Culture Wars, Institute of Ideas, Manifesto Club and Spiked.
==Contact==
Website:
* Leeds http://www.leedssalon.org.uk/
Facebook:
* Leeds
Twitter:
* Leeds
==Notes==
Category:LM network
Lega Nord per l'indipendenza della Padania

Lega Nord per l'indipendenza della Padania (North League for Independence of Padania) is a federalist political party founded in 1991 in Italy.
==MEPs==
*Francesco Enrico Speroni 
==Affiliations==
* Following the 2009 European election Lega Nord joined the newly formed Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group in the European Parliament.
==Resources==
==Notes==
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Category: Political Party in Italy
Legal & General Group Plc

Legal & General Group Plc is a multinational financial services company, founded in 1836. As of 30 June 2010, they had £331 billion of funds under management. The company is headquartered in London.
==Record and Controversies==
===Revolving Door===
:*U.K. Life Peer Lord Terence Burns, a former Chief Economic Advisor and Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, was a Non-executive Director of Legal and General Group plc from 1999 to 2001.Who's Who 2009, BURNS, online edition, Oxford University Press, accessed 24 March 2009.
:*Sir Michael Scholar, former Permanent Secretary at Department for Trade and Industry, was Non-executive Director of Legal & General Investment Management Holdings from 2002 to 2007.Who's Who 2009, SCHOLAR, Sir Michael (Charles), online edition, Oxford University Press, accessed 24 March 2009.
==Contact==
:Website:
:http://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/
==Resources==
*Who's Who 2009, BURNS, online edition, Oxford University Press, accessed 24 March 2009.
*Who's Who 2009, SCHOLAR, Sir Michael (Charles), online edition, Oxford University Press, accessed 24 March 2009.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving Door
Legal Advisor to the Security Service

==Legal advisers==
*Bernard Sheldon 1968-1987Bernard Sheldon, The Times, 27 February 2008.
*David Bickford 1987-1995Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and The War on Terrorism, André Deutsch, 2003, p.301.
==Notes==
Category:MI5
Legion of Christ

The Legion of Christ is a Roman Catholic congregation founded in Mexico City in 1941 by Father Marcial Maciel.Wo We Are, Legion of Christ, accessed 13 August 2010.Synopsis of the History of the Legion of Christ, Legion of Christ, accessed 13 August 2010. 
The Legion's lay movement, Regnum Christi, was founded in 1959.Synopsis of the History of the Legion of Christ, Legion of Christ, accessed 13 August 2010. 
==Scandals==
Revelations about the Legion of Christ have been a central strand in the abuse scandals that engulfed the Catholic Church in the first decade of the Twenty-First Century. The New York Times summarised the story as follows:
::In 1998, eight Legionaries seminarians filed a complaint with the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The pope, who was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and the head of the body, quashed an investigation in 1999, according to accounts from a Mexican bishop who tried to press the case with him. In 2004, a few months before John Paul died, the future pope reopened the investigation. It eventually found that Father Maciel had abused seminarians, fathered several children and misappropriated funds.
::In 2006, Benedict removed him from priestly duties and restricted him to a life of prayer and penance — a punishment that his victims say was not commensurate to his crimes. He died two years later, still a priest.
::In 2006, Benedict removed Maciel from priestly duties and restricted him to a life of penance. He died two years later.Rachel Donadio, Pope Reins In Catholic Order Tied to Abuse, New York Times, 1 May 2010.
On 1 May 2010, Pope Benedict appointed a special delegate to govern the order, bringing it under the direct control of the Vatican.Rachel Donadio, Pope Reins In Catholic Order Tied to Abuse, New York Times, 1 May 2010.
==Contact==
*Website http://www.legionariesofchrist.org
==External Resources==
*Diego Cevallos, Legionaries of Christ Founder Falls from Grace, Inter Press Service, 19 May 2006.
*Damian Thompson, Legionaries of Christ face disaster after founder's double life is exposed, Blogs, telegraph.co.uk, 4 February 2009.
*Hugh O'Shaughnessy, Confronting the Legionaries of Christ in Mexico, guardian.co.uk, 22 July 2009.
*Emilio Godoy, Legion of Christ Scandal Escalates, Inter Press Service, 6 March 2010.
*Jason Berry, Money paved way for Maciel's influence in the Vatican, National Catholic Reporter, 6 April 2010.
*Jason Berry, How Fr. Maciel built his empire, National Catholic Reporter, 12 April 2010. 
*Alma Guillermoprieto, Father Maciel, John Paul II, and the Vatican Sex Crisis, New York Review of Books Blog, 17 May 2010.
==Notes==
Category:Christian Church
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a financial services company founded in 1850 and declared bankruptcy in 2008. Its main headquarters were in New York City.
==Record and Controversies==
===Revolving Door===
:*U.K. Life Peer Kenneth Baker, Lord Baker of Dorking, was appointed Chairman of Lehman Brothers European Advisory Council in 2004.UK Parliament, Register of Lords' Financial Interests, accessed 31 January 2011. 
:*Judith A. Miscik, Global Head of Sovereign Risk at Lehman Brothers from 2005 to 2008, was Deputy Director of Intelligence at the CIA from 2002 to 2005.OpenSecrets, Miscik, Judith A (“Jami”), accessed 31 January 2011.Milken Institute, Speaker's Biography: Jami Miscik, Global Conference 10th Anniversary, 23-25 April 2007, accessed 31 January 2011.
:*U.K. Life Peer Christopher Tugendhat, Lord Tugendhat of Widdington, was Chairman of Lehman Brothers Europe from 2002 to 2006 and a member of Lehman Brothers European Advisory Board from 2006.Bloomberg Businessweek, TNU PLC, accessed 31 January 2011.Reuters, "UPDATE 1-MOVES-Lehman, Doughty Hanson, UniCredit," 05 October 2007, accessed 31 January 2011.
==Affiliations==
*Conservative Party -The Leader's Group donor club
==Contact==
:Website:
:http://www.lehman.com/
==Resources==
*Milken Institute, Speaker's Biography: Jami Miscik, Global Conference 10th Anniversary, 23-25 April 2007, accessed 31 January 2011.
*OpenSecrets, Miscik, Judith A (“Jami”), accessed 31 January 2011.
*Reuters, "UPDATE 1-MOVES-Lehman, Doughty Hanson, UniCredit," 05 October 2007, accessed 31 January 2011.
*UK Parliament, Register of Lords' Financial Interests, accessed 31 January 2011.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving DoorCategory: Conservative Party Donors
Leigh Lewis

Sir Leigh Lewis KCB is a former permanent secretary in the UK Department for Work and Pensions. He left the civil service in 2011.
==Affiliations==
*Broadway - Chair of the Board of Trustees since Feb 2011. Approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 2 years from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of Broadway, the normal three-month waiting period being waived" Twelfth Report 2010-2011 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 9 December 2014 
ACOBA approved the following roles "subject to the automatic waiting period of 3 months from his last day of service and to the condition that, for 2 years from the same date, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer or its clients"
*PricewaterhouseCoopers - Lewis has been a member of its advisory board since May 2011
*Member of the With Profits Committee Aviva UK Life since May 2011
==Resources==
==Notes==
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