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+++Breaking: Lib Dems given maximum £20k fine over 2015 General Election expenses

By The Voice | Wed 7th December 2016 - 8:06 am

News is breaking that the Liberal Democrats have been given the maximum £20,000 fine by the Electoral Commission over anomalies in the reporting of General Election expenses in 2015. The national expenditure return submitted by the party did not include details of some national expenditure reported separately by local parties. Even with this expenditure included in the total, the party was nowhere near the limit that the party had to spend.

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