Richard Tice has secured a win against Dale Vince in the Court of Appeal this morning after the eco-millionaire’s dual claims were dismissed. Oof…
This is part of a protracted legal battle between Tice and Vince after the Deputy Reform leader tweeted: “So major Labour donor is pro the murderous antisemitic Hamas … Mmmm.” A High Court ruling found this to be a statement of opinion, not fact, last year. Vince decided to appeal…
Lord Justices Lewison, Coulson and Warby held that the High Court judge was entitled to find Tice’s statement, read in context, was opinion. Vince appeal claim one: dismissed…
Vince tried a new argument on appeal, that Tice was also on the hook for repeating another claim about Vince’s views, but the court threw it out because he could have made that argument at the original trial and chose not to, so it was too late to switch tactics now. Vince appeal claim two: dismissed…
Read the judgement below:
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”