The director of public prosecutions is considering a complaint that voters were misled by the Vote Leave and Leave.EU campaigns, in contravention of electoral law. That claim, made by Vote Leave, was contrary to evidence from the Office for National Statistics, Watt said. Although Vote Leave is no longer functioning , the Guardian has contacted Change Britain, its successor organisation, which campaigns to leave the single market, as well as its former chief executive, Matthew Elliott, at his new website Brexit Central asking for comment. The Lib Dem MP Tom Brake, patron of Vote Leave Watch, said: “It looks like the leaders of the Vote Leave campaign will be needing to spend some of that £350m on lawyers’ fees rather than our NHS. “Vote Leave went beyond the normal bounds of political campaigning, telling blatant untruths about our contribution to the EU budget, Turkey joining the European Union, and much more.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2016 12:34 UTC