Thomas Borwick says Kanto will “out-organise, out-plan, out-leaflet, out-Twitter, out-work and out-vote all of its opponents”

An Irish anti-abortion campaign group has hired a political consultancy linked to controversial aspects of the Brexit Leave campaign to support its drive in this year’s referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

Kanto, which was founded by Thomas Borwick, has been taken on to help to run a digital campaign to keep the constitutional ban on abortion.

The agency, which is based in Westminster, said last night that it had been contracted by anti-abortion campaigners in Ireland, but said the group had asked not to be identified to The Times.

Mr Borwick, 30, was technology chief for the official Vote Leave campaign in the EU referendum of 2016. Prominent Brexiteers have cited the campaign’s use of data and online activity as being decisive in securing