Britain's Official Brexit Campaign Fined for Campaign Violation

Britain's Electoral Commission has fined the country's official Brexit campaign group for violating campaign spending limits and referred the case to the police. The commission said Tuesday that Vote Leave had exceeded its mandatory spending limit in its stunning victory in the 2016 referendum of $9.3 million by over $600,000.  It said Vote Leave worked with a BeLeave, a smaller pro-Brexit group, to get around campaign finance rules. Bob Posner, the commission's...

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