In case you missed it, here’s the shocking video on Channel 4 News tonight where a young man who campaigned to Leave alleges that the Leave campaign overspent.
This young man, Shahmir Sanni, has complained at being outed by a former Vote Leave campaigner who now works in Downing Street.
There’s more in the Guardian:. The controversy centres on a donation to BeLeave, an organisation targeting young people run by former Liberal Democrat Darren Grimes.
What he has spent months coming to terms with is that this donation may not have had anything to do with BeLeave’s creativity and flair. “Vote Leave didn’t really give us that money,” he says. “They just pretended to. We had no control over it. We were 22-year-old students. You’re not going to just give nearly a million pounds to a pair of students and let them do whatever.”
To Sanni’s mind, what this means is: “They cheated.”
With this on top of the Cambridge Analytica stuff, the legitimacy of the referendum result must be called into question.
Tom Brake said tonight:
These allegations are stunning and touch directly on one of Theresa May’s closest advisors.
The British people expect fair play and campaigns to abide by the rules – they must not be cheated. These allegations must be examined by the police. If they represent what happened it is outrageous and shameful.
The referendum had a very narrow outcome. One of the biggest exercises in democracy must not turn out to be one of Britain’s biggest electoral frauds.
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