Institute Of Economic Affairs

London-based front groups pushing for the most deregulated form of Brexit have strong ties to major US libertarian influencers.

Fakenomics: The global economy was in a death spiral and Britain was at the centre of the financial tornado.

Fakenomics: Richard D North, an environmental journalist who blamed climate change on consumers rather oil companies, took cash from ExxonMobil.

Roger Bate recruited fellow economics student Julian Morris into free market, climate denying think tanks - but after 2005 they went their separate ways.

David Henderson, a founder of the climate denying Global Warming Policy Foundation, has died. This is the inside story of his battle with the IPCC.

Fakenomcis: Lord Browne took to the podium at Stanford University on 19 May 1997 and called for oil companies to face the challenge of climate change - more than two decades ago.

The treasury minister was speaking on the same day the Cato Institute called for softer environmental rules and NHS competition. JAMES BELL at Unearthed reports

The European Science and Environment Forum - set up by a staffer at the oil and tobacco funded Institute of Economic Affairs - played a vital role in the early, and vitriolic, attack on climate science. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates

The once-hidden romance between Roger Bate of the free market, climate denying Institute of Economic Affairs and Big Tobacco becomes a public affair. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates

Fakenomics: This is the story of how John Blundell - close friend to US oil billionaires - challenged the young Roger Bate to set up the climate denying 'Environment Unit' inside free-market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates

One of the Tufton Street groups, the Institute of Economic Affairs, recently hit headlines after undercover reporters filmed its director general appearing to suggest funders could get access to government ministers through the think tank, writes MAT HOPE

John Blundell worked for the Institute of Humane Studies in the United States - a think tank funded and controlled by the oil billionaire Koch brothers. He was then hired by the Institute of Economic Affairs - Britain's first think tank - and the birthplace of UK climate denial. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates

Lord Lawson is Britain's leading climate denier and claims warnings from scientists are alarmist. But Lawson as chancellor fundamentally failed to understand complex systems - and failed to raise the alarm. That didn't stop him making a personal fortune. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports

Antony Fisher founded the IEA - the instigator of UK climate denial and now at the centre of the 'influencing Brexit' scandal. His dramatic life story is a vital morality tale for those concerned about climate change.

The first part of our FAKENOMICS series opens with our Antony Fisher, the founder of the Institute of Economics, experiencing a harrowing experience during the Battle of Britain and the war against totalitarianism

The Institute of Economic Affairs has long kept the identity of its funders secret. The oil company BP still gives the climate denying charity cash, it has been confirmed. LAWERENCE CARTER and ALICE ROSS investigate

The Institute of Economic Affairs arranged meetings with ministers for US donors. LAWRENCE CARTER and ALICE ROSS report

The Institute of Economic Affairs offered a potential US agribusiness donor the chance to influence a report on 'green Brexit'. ALICE ROSS and LAWRENCE CARTER report

The Institute of Economic Affairs' Shanker Singham took visitors from Oklahoma into the heart of government. ALICE ROSS and LAWRENECE CARTER investigate