It's a really interesting question. I thought it was a great question to ask them how they had come to get this contract given that they had no links to the U.K. and were a relatively small company.
There are things we know. Brittany Kaiser told us that there was an initial introduction to Leave.EU—the other campaign, Arron Banks' campaign—to Steve Bannon. They made an introduction through Arron Banks to Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica were working with Leave.EU from the autumn of 2015 through to the point where Leave.EU didn't get the nomination to be the official campaign. Leave.EU say they never paid Cambridge Analytica for that work they never got, but they had a contractual relationship with them. There are still some questions around that. We know that links between Cambridge Analytica and SCL seemed to continue after the official designation was made. They were involved in supporting Arron Banks' visit to Washington, D.C., before the referendum. There seem to be close links there. Some of the these things are even detailed in Arron Banks' book and he refers to the fact they hired Cambridge Analytica. There seems to be quite a strong relationship there.
With AIQ one of the things we're interested in understanding more about is how the introduction was made of AIQ to Vote Leave when Vote Leave got that official designation. Who was responsible for that introduction? It does seem very strange that you have what, at the time, seemed to be unconnected companies. We know now that the companies, even if they weren't one legal entity, were highly coordinated in the way they worked together and were potentially advising two sides of the same campaign.