Victoria Woodcock

Victoria Woodcock (1987–) "Vics" was the operations director for the Vote Leave campaign for the 2016 referendum vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.

Quotes

• untrue and completely unsupported by the evidence
  • Pressure builds over whistleblower’s Brexit spending claims. Financial Times (2018-03-25).
  • The Financial Times was using a quote from the Observer that Woodcock was refuting allegations that she been involved in deliberately deleting data to hide that election spending rules had been breached. Dominic Cummings gave an explanation as to why allegations against Woodcock were false.Dominic Cummings (2018-04-27). On the referendum #24F: Another central claim of the Observer/Channel 4 conspiracy blows up. Dominic Cummings's Blog.

• Wouldn’t it be worth working out what the actual criteria are?
  • Paul Goodman (2016-12-23). Five people who made the Brexit vote happen 5) Victoria Woodcock. Conservative Home.
  • Making on observation about a critical section of the form to be sent to the Electoral Commission for the Vote Leave's campaign, it being discovered that none of the required criteria has been addressed, a revised version of the form being re-issued with 20 minutes to spare.

Quotes about Victoria Woodcock

• If Woodcock’s nose had been shorter…
  • Paul Goodman (2016-12-23). Five people who made the Brexit vote happen 5) Victoria Woodcock. Conservative Home.
  • Goodman noting that if Woodcote had scrutinised the form being sent to the Electoral Commission that the United Kingdom might have remained within the European Union. In this context Goodman was not implying anything about Wookcock's facial appearance but rather ability for sniffing out important details.

• ... Victoria Woodcock, Operations Director, known as Vics, who was the most indispensable person in the campaign. If she’d gone under a bus, Remain would have won. When comparing many things in life the difference between average and best is say 30% but some people are 50 times more effective than others. She is one of them.
  • Dominic Cummings (2016-10-29). On the referendum #20: the campaign, physics and data science – Vote Leave’s ‘Voter Intention Collection System’ (VICS) now available for all. Dominic Cummings's Blog.
  • Dominic Cummings commenting on Woodcock being indespendible to he vote leave campaign.

• If you think you are one of the a small group of people in the world who are truly GREAT at project management, then we want to talk to you. Victoria Woodcock ran Vote Leave — she was a truly awesome project manager and without her Cameron would certainly have won. We need people like this who have a 1 in 10,000 or higher level of skill and temperament.
  • Dominic Cummings (2020-01-02). ‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos….
  • Dominic Cummings in the role of chief advisor to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicating type of people they were looking to recruit.