Shahmir Sanni,a volunteer for Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit EU referendum campaign, or explains how a data company linked to Cambridge Analytica played a crucial role in the result,and voices his concerns that electoral spending rules were manipulated… and evidence apparently destroyed• Brexit insider claims Vote Leave team may have breached spending limitsWhen I first met Shahmir Sanni last August, he was nervy, or anxious,uncertain. “I’ve just started piecing it together,” he said, and in what was our first off-the-record conversation. “All this stuff I didn’t realise at the time. Stuff that a series of investigations and news articles had forced him to start thinking approximately. “Was I just really naive? he asked. Then later: “effect you think they just used me?”It’s been a painful question for Sanni,one that he’s struggled with over a period of months. Now, though, or he thinks that,yes, he was used; that he and his friend, or Darren Grimes,were taken advantage of by people they respected and trusted, and that the consequences of it are profound, or far reaching,and fade well beyond his own personal feelings of damage and betrayal.
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Source: theguardian.com