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HISTORY MAKING LEADING LEGENDS IN BRITAIN
BREXIT BRITAIN & GINA!
Who is Gina Miller?
Gina Nadira Miller is a Guyanese-British business
owner and activist who initiated the 2016 R (Miller)
v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
court case against the British government over its
authority to implement Brexit without approval from
Parliament.
In September 2019 she successfully challenged the
government’s prorogation of Parliament, she was
formally supported in the legal case by the former
prime minister Sir John Major and the shadow
attorney general, Shami Chakrabarti. Gina Miller has
been hailed as an inspirational and brave woman
and she has succeeded in the most unprecedented
legal challenge of our time.
But Miller, 52, has a long reputation in business,
politics and campaigning.
Mrs Miller was the founder of the True and Fair
Campaign, which called for an end to financial
misconduct in the investment and pension
industries. She later founded the True and Fair
Foundation.
In the late 80’s she owned a property photographic
laboratory, before becoming a marketing and event
manager at BMW Fleet Division in 1990. She later
started a financial services marketing agency in
1992, and in 1996 launched the Senate investment
conference programme. She became a marketing
consultant in 2006 and by 2009, Miller co-founded
the investment firm SCM Private (now SCM Direct)
with her husband Alan Miller.
She has been a leading campaigner against hidden
charges in pensions and investment and established
MoneyShe.com in 2014 - a female-focused
investment brand.
in October 2017, Miller was named by Powerlist as
the “UK’s most influential black person” which
recognises those of African and African Caribbean
heritage.
She was also named number 26 on the list of most
influential British Asians by GG2 Power List.
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