Roland Rudd led an overhaul of the People’s Vote campaign last month that resulted in staff walking out

Roland Rudd has quit the People’s Vote campaign after weeks of rows over its strategy, The Times has learnt.

The multimillionaire PR executive has resigned as chairman of both People’s Vote and Open Britain, one of the pro-EU groups that is campaigning for a second referendum.

He has been replaced as chairman of Open Britain by Anne Weyman, a former chief executive of the Family Planning Association. People’s Vote will not have a new chairman until after the general election, and the campaign’s warring factions are set for talks in the coming days to establish a new leadership structure.

Last month Mr Rudd launched a boardroom coup, ousting the campaign’s leader James McGrory and Tom Baldwin, its communications chief.

The move prompted mass staff