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John Petley read music at Oxford and also has a diploma in applied theology from Moorlands Bible College. He was not active politically until he was over 40 years old and read an article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard which opened his eyes to the nature of the European project. He has subsequently worked for two years as a researcher in the European Parliament, and later served for three years as editor of The Freedom Association's in-house magazine Freedom Today, He then joined the Campaign for an Independent Britain as Operations Manager, speaking in over 20 debates and rallies during the 2016 referendum campaign. He is the author of Top 10 reasons to leave the EU (Bretwalda Books) and since the referendum has collaborated with John Ashworth of Fishing for Leave  in the production of two booklets on fisheries. His paper On the Wrong Track was published by the Bruges Group in 2009.