Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has donated another £400,000 to the pro-EU campaign group Best for Britain in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, BuzzFeed News can exclusively reveal.



The investor's second large donation to the group has been brought forward in the wake of allegations that Cambridge Analytica had links to a data firm contracted to the Vote Leave campaign during the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Soros previously donated £400,000 through his Open Society Foundations to the pro-Remain group, which launched almost a year ago with the goal of "fighting to keep the door open to EU membership".

The Telegraph was then accused of "dog-whistle anti-Semitism" after running a front-page story about Soros, who is Jewish, with the headline "Man who 'broke the Bank of England' backing secret plot to thwart Brexit." The piece went on to call Soros "A rich gambler … accused of meddling in [the] nation’s affairs."