Leave.EU has been fined £70,000 and its chief executive has been referred to the Metropolitan police after the Electoral Commission found it had breached multiple counts of electoral law during the referendum to leave the European Union. The commission said it had reasonable grounds to suspect she “knowingly or recklessly signed a false declaration accompanying the Leave.EU referendum spending return”. - Chairman @Arron_banks on the biased Electoral Commission. Instead Vote Leave, which had support from Conservative and some Labour MPs, was designated as the overall organisation. That decision meant that while Vote Leave was able to spend £7m during the final weeks of the referendum campaign, Leave.EU was legally only allowed to spend £700,000.

Source: The Guardian May 11, 2018 06:53 UTC