Change Britain was a

pressure group Advocacy groups, also known as interest groups, special interest groups, lobbying groups or pressure groups use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and ultimately policy. They play an important role in the developm ...

in the United Kingdom set up in 2016 by leaders of the

Vote Leave Vote Leave was a campaigning organisation that supported a "Leave" vote in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. On 13 April 2016 it was designated by the Electoral Commission as the official campaign in favour of leavi ...

campaign following the 2016 Referendum, in which 51.9% of participating voters voted in favour of leaving the

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History

Change Britain was founded as a successor to the

campaign, with support from many of its key figures, including Labour MP

Gisela Stuart Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (''née'' Gschaider; born 26 November 1955) is a British-German politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017. A former member of the Lab ...

(Chair) and

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Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...

. Its stated aim was "to campaign for a Brexit which takes back control of our laws, borders, money and trade". The group attracted criticism for seemingly dropping Vote Leave's pledge to increase spending on the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

(NHS), but

, chair of both organisations, reaffirmed this pledge in a speech to the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. ...

in 2017. Boris Johnson was elected

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in July 2019 and he later appointed Gisela Stuart to the

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in September 2020. The group dissolved as of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

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