A number of possible criminal offences may have been committed by members of the official Brexit campaign during the EU referendum, according to the expert view of some of Britain’s leading barristers.
Intensifying the pressure on senior figures within Theresa May’s cabinet and No 10 Downing Street, Helen Mountfield QC and Clare Montgomery QC of Matrix Chambers, concluded there is a “prima facie case” that a number of electoral offences were committed by the Vote Leave campaign.
An urgent investigation is required, they say, to determine whether the case should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Having examined a “significant body of new whistleblower evidence” which includes the testimony of three individuals with close knowledge of the Vote Leave campaign, the QCs’ legal opinion is that “there would be realistic prospects of conviction” in relation to that Vote Leave may have flouted referendum spending rules during the EU referendum campaign.
The QCs said that, from the documents and files they had seen and which have now been sent to the Electoral Commission, there were “strong grounds” that Vote Leave overspent, as it channelled money through another campaign, which it may have been co-ordinating with. This, if proved true, amounts to a breach of electoral law.
Vote Leave, whose leading members include Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, strongly denies any co-ordination with another campaign group during the referendum.
Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... l-offences
If this is true then Brexit was not about increased democracy.
If this is true then Brexit was not about increased democracy.
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Re: If this is true then Brexit was not about increased democracy.
Won’t change the vote, nor lead to a new vote..... as we live in as corrupt as democracy as it always has been and likely always will be.... much like most....
Is anyone really surprised? When an American president can be found to be corrupt, a liar and likely only in power because of corrupt interfering by Russians on his behalf.... when Brexit may have been similarly compromised... when the campaign is now proven to have broken rules...
Is anyone really surprised? When an American president can be found to be corrupt, a liar and likely only in power because of corrupt interfering by Russians on his behalf.... when Brexit may have been similarly compromised... when the campaign is now proven to have broken rules...
