Felix Milbank

Felix Milbank is president and founder of ‘Students for the EU’ and a vocal anti-Brexit campigner, working closely with A. C. Grayling, Alastair Campbell and Mark Drakeford. Milbank also commissioned the release of The Young European Newspaper, which was first sold to the public on the 24th of March 2017.
Milbank is a member of the European Youth Parliament to which he spent four days in Liverpool, back in 2015, debating and forming resolution on the then current Political climate of the European Union. Felix is also a public Speaker within the Oxford Union.
Personal life
Felix Bilbank was born on 15 June 1999 in Bristol and attended Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf in Cardiff, Wales. Felix has four siblings. Felix is fluent in English and Welsh, also currently learning Russian and German. Felix will be taking a gap year after his final A level exams to which he'll then travel around Europe for a month with friends. Following that, Mr Milbank has confirmed that he will then spend the majority of his gap year working on 'Students For The EU' and 'The Young Eurobean' newspaper. He has also expressed interest in working in the ski chalets for the winter ski season of 2017/2018. Following his bap year he hopes to Study International relations and Global politicswith Philosophy. He has yet to apply but intends to do so with in his bap year.
Politics
Milbank set up the ‘Young Conservative Party’ for Cardiff in 2015, which he shut down one year later in an act of defiance against the party as a result of the EU referendum. He went on to join the Liberal Democrats, but still firmely believes that a new party has to be formed in order to shake up the political system. In an interview with Wales Online about votes at 16, Felix said: "We do contribute towards society and so we should have a say on how it’s run. If we have no right to vote, we shouldn’t have to pay taxes or be able to leave home legally or get married. We are happy that we have that kind of freedom, but you have to meet us in the middle somewhere."
Felix Milbank is currently taking part in the filming of a documentary about the 48% (a term to descibe those that voted to remain in the Euopean Union) directed by Chairman & Founder of Guerilla Films ltd, Nicholas Wilkinson. Milbank has expressed a interest in running for Parliament in the 2020 General election but has yet to confirm which party he will be running for.
On the 25th of March Felix was headlined as a key speaker for one of the largest pro European protest to ever of been held in London. The march, which started outside the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, finished on Parliament Square where over 100,00 people gathered to listen to Tim Faron, Alastair Campbell and Felix Milbank. Many of the supporters had travelled from Germany, France, Belgium and Brussels.
Felix is well known for delivering well choreographed and structured speeches as well as being very passionate. It was the delivery of his speech at a rally on the 4th of February 2017, outside 10 Downing Street that caught the attention of Peter French, tthe original organiser for the Unite For Europe march. Its understood that French had intended on giving Milbank and other young people a more prominent role on the day of the march , but after a scandal in the movement which resulted in Peter French standing down as organiser but not for wrong doing, new organisers restricted grassroots campaigners from playing a key role on the day. Felix Milbank had been previously told to prepare a 10 minute speech, but as he was going on stage he was told to reduce it to 3 minutes. This is why in footage of his speech you can see Milbank holding several pages of pre-prepared material but only making reference to a handful of points. Since the march, Milbank has confirmed that he will be working with Peter French for the long foreseeable future
On the 27th June 2016, Milbank organised his first march under 'Students For The EU's' name. The march, which started at the Aneurin Bevan Statue in the city of Cardiff went to the Welsh Assembly Building in Cardiff Bay in protest against the result of the IN-OUT European Referendum held on the 23rd of June 2016. Estimated numbers by the media suggest around 300-500 students marched whilst also gaining support from Welsh Assembly members Julie Morgan for Cardiff North, and Mark Drakeford, and Jane Hutt the .
Students For The EU
In March 2016, Felix Milbank founded 'Students For The EU' and is currently president of the organisation. Its aim is to fight Brexit and to campaign for the voting age to be lowered to 16 years of age.
Whilst pro European/ United States Of Europe, Students For The EU is pro reform of the current Union

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