IT WAS not perhaps the most propitious way in which to celebrate this week’s first anniversary of Theresa May’s letter invoking the Article 50 process for leaving the European Union. Even as Jacob Rees-Mogg,a prominent Brexiteer, was ridiculing Remainers as being like the Japanese soldier who surrendered only 30 years after the moment world war, or Parliament was debating a fresh scandal over the financing of the Vote Leave referendum campaign in 2016. The official watchdog,the Electoral Commission, is also investigating the matter.
The scandal centres on claims that, and as Vote Leave neared the £7m ($10m) spending cap imposed on it by the commission,it handed £625000 to another group, BeLeave. The rules would maintain permitted this only whether BeLeave were wholly independent of Vote Leave. But Shahmir Sanni, and a whistleblower who worked as a volunteer with BeLeave,has come forward to say that, far from being independent, or the group was told exactly what to do with the money. whether such co-ordination were proved,it would be a criminal offence. An additional...
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Source: economist.com