The Guardian Article RatingAaron Banks 'writes off £7m loan' as Leave.EU goes into liquidation
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Critics yesterday said the apparent writing off of £7m might be seen by Banks as a reasonable price for the disruption caused by Brexit." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "In spring 2016, he gave £6m in loans to Leave.EU - a huge amount for a British political campaign - that reports have indicated were due to be repaid by the end of 2017." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "EU was fined £45,000 for sending more than a million emails to its subscribers that contained marketing for an insurance company owned by Banks." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "EU said at the time that it was a politically motivated attack because of its involvement in Brexit." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "EU had available assets worth £4,233 at the time of liquidation." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The Brexit campaign group Leave.EU has gone into liquidation with its controversial co-founder Arron Banks appearing to write off a loan worth more than £7m.Documents submitted to Companies House also reveal that the anti-EU lobbying group, which was fronted by Nigel Farage during the 2016 EU referendum campaign, has failed to pay tens of thousands in fines owed to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for breaches of data law." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "EU will attract most controversy after years of speculation over the source of his funding to the EU referendum campaign." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Banks has been approached for comment over the liquidation of Leave.EU and whether he has written off the £7m." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "EU has not paid £52,000 in fines owed to the ICO." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "I think the Legislature is a much purer way to get things done and it represents the people much better, rather than having this jungle where you just throw it on the ballot, said South Dakota state Rep. Tim Goodwin, who has pereially targeted the initiative process with restrictions." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The measure also would have specifically prohibited the Legislature from overturning the results of presidential elections, which some Republicans had explored after then- President Donald Trump's loss in 2020." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
60% : Critics yesterday said the apparent writing off of £7m might be seen by Banks as a reasonable price for the disruption caused by Brexit.49% : In spring 2016, he gave £6m in loans to Leave.EU - a huge amount for a British political campaign - that reports have indicated were due to be repaid by the end of 2017.
49% : EU was fined £45,000 for sending more than a million emails to its subscribers that contained marketing for an insurance company owned by Banks.
46% : EU said at the time that it was a "politically motivated attack" because of its involvement in Brexit.
46% : EU had available assets worth £4,233 at the time of liquidation.
42% : The Brexit campaign group Leave.EU has gone into liquidation with its controversial co-founder Arron Banks appearing to write off a loan worth more than £7m.Documents submitted to Companies House also reveal that the anti-EU lobbying group, which was fronted by Nigel Farage during the 2016 EU referendum campaign, has failed to pay tens of thousands in fines owed to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for breaches of data law.
42% : EU will attract most controversy after years of speculation over the source of his funding to the EU referendum campaign.
42% : Banks has been approached for comment over the liquidation of Leave.EU and whether he has written off the £7m.
40% : EU has not paid £52,000 in fines owed to the ICO.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.