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The owner of the influential Westminster political website Guido Fawkes is behind a social media campaign to put Boris Johnson in Downing Street, BuzzFeed News can reveal.

A website called Boris2020.org is aiming to “Get Boris on the Ballot” by encouraging members of the public to email MPs to urge them to vote for the former foreign secretary in the upcoming Conservative leadership contest.

“Remain MPs are plotting to keep Boris off your ballot,” the site says. Prominent journalists began sharing the link on Monday night, wondering who was paying for the campaign.

In the fine print of its privacy policy, the Boris2020 website reveals that the campaign’s data controller is a company called CampaignAction Limited.

A search of the Information Commissioner’s Office register reveals that CampaignAction Limited was registered last week. The registered data protection officer is identified as Paul Staines, the owner of Guido Fawkes.