A key Vote Leave figure has sidestepped calls to apologise for the campaign breaking the law over its spending during the EU referendum. The watchdog’s investigation centred on a donation of almost £680,000 made by Vote Leave to BeLeave, a youth Brexit group. This spending took Vote Leave over its £7 million legal spending limit. We have been advised that Vote Leave has paid its £61,000 fine and look forward to receiving the sum in full.”Gove and JohnsonAnna Soubry, the former Tory MP who joined the Independent Group, called for a full explanation from the two leading Vote Leave campaigners and now Tory leadership hopefuls, Michael Gove and Johnson. “We had a compliance committee, our legal advice was always that that was the right thing to do.

Source: The Irish Times March 31, 2019 15:00 UTC