Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

‘We need to start the road to rejoin’: Gina Miller on Brexit, farmers and her ambitious plans for Epsom

Illustration: Sam Falconer 
issue 09 September 2023

Gina Miller is trying to convince me that she understands why I voted Brexit. The woman who went to the High Court in 2016 to effectively try to cancel my vote by insisting the EU referendum result be referred back to a Remain-dominated parliament, plunging Brexit into years of legal and parliamentary wrangling, says she feels my pain and always has.

How can this be? Well, maybe it’s just the magic of politics.

‘My case was not to do with Brexit. It was to do with parliament’

Ms Miller is attempting to turn her single-issue, referendum-wrecking fame into a broader platform, by standing in leafy Epsom and Ewell as one of nine general election candidates for her True and Fair party.

I arrive at her campaign HQ determined to demand how she can possibly call it true and fair to try to overturn the votes of 17 million people with R (Miller) vs Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union – an action which resulted in Brexit being put through the wringer for years before it squeezed through parliament.

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