Right-winger’s complaint against Remain camp kicked out by Electoral Commission

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The watchdog have found 'no evidence' of joint spending by Britain Stronger in Europe and others on pro-EU side.

The Electoral Commission have kicked out a complaint against Britain Stronger in Europe, after Tory politician Priti Patel MP claimed she had evidence of ‘joint spending’ between Remain groups. 

Ms Patel had said that calls between figures on the Remain side amounted to a breach of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 – which limit ‘joint spending’ between different groups during referendums.

But the Commission have conducted their assessment – showing there is no evidence of any joint spending against Britain Stronger in Europe.

In a letter to Priti Patel, the Commission said:

“We have now completed an assessment into your complaint about Britain Stronger in Europe (BSiE) and other ‘remain’ campaigners in the 2016 EU referendum. You raised concerns about whether BSiE had failed to report joint spending in its return for that referendum, and whether it had exceeded its spending limit as a result…

“Following an assessment, the Commission has determined that it does not have reasonable grounds to suspect BSiE committed these offences. We will not be opening an investigation into this matter.”

Meanwhile the investigation into serious allegations of collusion between Leave campaigns continues.

As we reported, “The Electoral Commission launched an investigation into whether donations and loans from Brexit campaigner Arron Banks, and one of his companies, broke campaign finance rules in the run-up to the EU referendum.”

Now that stuff is genuinely interesting…

Josiah Mortimer is Editor of Left Foot Forward. Follow him on Twitter.

See also: Are the Tories helping the DUP hide ‘dark money’ donations?

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2 Responses to “Right-winger’s complaint against Remain camp kicked out by Electoral Commission”

  1. Jimmy glesga

    The remain anti democratic fascists are clearly losing the plot. We are out chaps just accept reality.
    Sorry you were unable to mention the Sinn Fein IRA fascist who was rejoicing in the genocide of NI workers.

  2. Das

    There was probably less staff left to investigate both accusations so the electoral commission did as they usually do and hope nobody notices.

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