Matthew Elliott (politics)
| Matthew Elliot | |
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| Born |
February 12, 1978 Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Political strategist |
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Matthew Jim Elliott (born 12 February 1978) is a British political strategist and lobbyist who has served as the Chief Executive of a number of organisations and been involved in various successful referendum campaigns, including Vote Leave.
Elliot was the founder and has served as chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, Big Brother Watch and Business for Britain.
He has also seen success as a political strategist, acting as campaign director for the successful NOtoAV campaign in the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum. In 2015, Elliot became the chief executive of Vote Leave, the official organisation advocating for a 'leave' vote in the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016.
His success in managing referendum campaigns has led to him being described as "...one of the most successful political campaigners in Westminster today."
Elliot served as press officer for the European Foundation from 2000, and political secretary to Timothy Kirkhope MEP from 2001.
In 2004, Elliot co-founded the TaxPayers’ Alliance with Andrew Allum. He served as Chief Executive of the organisation until 2014.
In 2009, he founded the civil liberties and privacy pressure group Big Brother Watch, in response to “the prevailing climate of authoritarian and intrusive policies being pursued by the British state”.
In 2011, he took a sabbatical to act as Campaign Director for the NOtoAV campaign during the UK Alternative Vote referendum. NOtoAV were successful in maintaining the current voting system, receiving 67.9% of the votes cast. He is credited with helping to turn public opinion against the alternative vote, from 2 to 1 in favour to 2 to 1 against. The large victory for the NOtoAV campaign led to Elliot being praised as "...one of the most successful political campaigners in Westminster today". Tim Montgomerie wrote that "At the moment, he's there at the very top of centre-right campaigners in Britain...He does all the things that a successful campaigner needs to do. He has message discipline, he takes opinion research incredibly seriously, he's intelligent and works hard.'
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