Leave Campaign Defends against Violations of Electoral Law in Brexit
The director of the official campaign for the departure of Great Britain from the European Union, Vote Leave, has today denied that his organisation had committed irregularities in the run-up to the referendum in June 2016.
The reason is the forthcoming publication of a report from the British Electoral Commission, in which an overrun of the expenditure ceiling and violations on the electoral law would be determined.
According to director Matthew Elliott, the electoral commission will denounce in its report that Vote Leave has tampered with the accounts. "Their initial conclusion is that we have exceeded the expenditure ceiling, that we donated to another group during the campaign, which we should not have done", he said on Sky News.
Central to the report is a donation of more than 60...
