The Bane of the Brexiteers

GT Gina Miller

BUSINESSWOMAN AND ACTIVIST

GINA MILLER, A BRITISH BUSINESSWOMAN who co-founded the wealth management firm SCM Direct, is a former Labour Party member and campaigner for transparency and scrutiny in relation to Brexit. In 2016, she successfully challenged the British government’s authority to invoke Article 50, which would trigger the process of leaving the European Union, without an act of Parliament. After the U.K. Supreme Court ruled in her favor in January 2017, she became the target of violent and vitriolic abuse; she channeled that experience into the 2018 memoir Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading Her organization, End the Chaos, has continued to campaign for a public vote on any deal negotiated by the British government and the European Union, including an option to remain in the EU, if there is a parliamentary impasse. Miller has also raised funds to back electoral candidates opposed to a hard Brexit.