Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)

Directors

Toby Haynes

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Kinnear, Lee Boardman, Richard Goulding, John Heffernan, Oliver Maltman, Simon Paisley Day, Lucy Russell

The story

The film opens in 2020, at a future (fictional) public inquiry, where a frustrated Dominic Cummings attempts to explain to the panel that they have no understanding of the way in which technology is reshaping politics and therefore society in the United Kingdom. In 2015, Cummings rejects an offer by UKIP MP Douglas Carswell and political strategist Matthew Elliott to lead the Vote Leave campaign due to his contempt for "Westminster politics", but accepts when Carswell promises him full control. Cummings uses "algorithmic database-driven micro-targeting tools" delivered via social media/internet, instead of a traditional campaign of…

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