Thomas Borwick is an SEO strategist, CEO and right-wing digital influencer. He has undertaken work for

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 ...

and the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

. The son of

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

and

Jamie Borwick Geoffrey Robert James Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick (born 7 March 1955) is a British businessman, hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords. Early life Jamie Borwick was born on 7 March 1955. He was educated at Sandroyd School and Eton Colle ...

(a Conservative politician and peer, respectively), Thomas Borwick studied at the University of Richmond, Virginia. After graduating, he worked at Killik & Co, before founding his own company, Kanto Systems, in 2012. Borwick worked for

Cambridge Analytica Cambridge Analytica Ltd (CA), previously known as SCL USA, was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It was started in 2013, as a subsidiary of the private intelli ...

and

AggregateIQ AggregateIQ (AIQ) previously known as SCL Canada is a Canadian political consultancy and technology company, based in Victoria, British Columbia. History AIQ was founded in 2013 by Zack Massingham, a former university administrator and Jeff Si ...

, and was chief technology officer for

before creating the campaigning group 3rd Party Ltd in order to influence the outcome of the

2019 United Kingdom general election The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 12 December 2019. It resulted in the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party receiving a Landslide victory, landslide majority of 80 seats. The Conservatives made a net gain of 4 ...

. As part of this campaign, Borwick ran targeted Facebook advertisements calling for voters to vote for the

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...

, possibly in a move to divide the anti-Conservative vote. However, given that these ads were run both in swing (Plymouth) and non-swing constituencies (Oxford), the campaign may have been a strategy for harvesting data on Green Party supporters. He has also operated numerous other companies, including Disruptive Communications Ltd, which he started in partnership with

Douglas Carswell John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 3 May 1971) is a British former politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2017, co-founded Vote Leave and currently serves as president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. ...

, formerly of the

UK Independence Party The UK Independence Party (UKIP; ) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. The party reached its greatest level of success in the mid-2010s, when it gained two members of Parliament and was the largest par ...

; and Voter Consultancy Ltd, whose micro-targeting of Facebook adverts led to death threats against anti-Brexit MPs and a subsequent investigation by the

Information Commissioner's Office The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is a non-departmental public body which reports directly to the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is the independe ...

. In 2015 Borwick was assaulted by three women in a London branch of

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, along with his girlfriend. Borwick was critical of the restaurant's bouncers, who he claimed did not assist him after he cried for help, but instead simply escorted him from the premises.

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