THIS 23-year-old fashion student has been revealed as one of the highest paid Brexiteers.

University of Brighton student Darren Grimes was given £675,000 in the run up to the referendum - official Electoral Commission records show - making him the single biggest recipient of funding by the campaign to leave the EU.

Darren ran a social media campaign called BeLeave aimed at targetting young voters - but managed to attract only 6,300 Facebook likes and just 3,700 followers on Twitter.

Immediately after the Brexit vote he told a national newspaper; "I set BeLeave up around Christmas last year because I realised that the main campaign’s message wasn’t resonating well with younger voters. We wanted to de-stigmatise Euro-scepticism because the likes of Nigel Farage had made it quite a toxic brand. But the likes of Boris have now made it a really positive message.

"BeLeave is a progressive, liberal, internationalist group of students who want to leave the EU. And we had quite a good response from a generation that had been cast as being pro-Europe. I’m really glad that we did it, and that we put a positive message out there.

"I think that’s why we won. It wasn’t fear, it was positivity. The remain campaign was completely negative and depressing. "It makes total sense for Britain to have new global horizons, and I’m very excited about the prospect of that."

Vote Leave gave the student £625,000 and a single donor gave him a further £50,000 - bringing his total funding up to £675,315.

Appearing in an interview on Channel 4 news in the days after the Brexit result was announced, he was “absolutely thrilled” and “so proud” of the UK. He added: “I think we took power and gave it to individuals to make this decision. We decided to go forward as a Britain with global horizons, a Britain which is more internationalist, free trading, and I really look forward to an exciting future now.”