13th police force sends files on alleged Conservative law-breaking to CPS
I previously noted the bad news for Conservative MPs in the Electoral Commission’s recent report which led to a record fine being levied in the party. … Read the full post »
Read about what the regulator for elections and political finance in the UK, the Electoral Commission, has got up to. It was created in 2000 by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (PPERA).
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I previously noted the bad news for Conservative MPs in the Electoral Commission’s recent report which led to a record fine being levied in the party. … Read the full post »
Here is the electoral timetable for this May’s council elections in England, Scotland and Wales. … Read the full post »
The Electoral Commission has not only hit the Conservative Party with a record fine, it has also found repeated evidence of expenditure missing from constituency expense returns. That matter is with the police. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #91 came out last week, including the results of my latest survey of party members which asked about cross-party cooperation and electoral pacts. … Read the full post »
Two members of a Conservative campaigning “hit squad” in the 2015 election tell Channel 4 News the party “cheated” by not properly declaring its election spending. … Read the full post »
The British Unicorn Party wanted to abolish BBC South East Today, soared to four group members on Facebook and its founder issued death threats to magistrates. … Read the full post »
A police source said that files were expected to be sent to the Crown Prosecution Service within weeks about Conservative election expenses and possible fraud. … Read the full post »
The sloppy (and regrettably dominant) media coverage of Cambridge Analytica has been of the form “it worked for Trump, it worked for Brexit so their clever big data targeting is powerful”. … Read the full post »
A Ukip MEP must pay £162,000 in damages to Rotherham’s three Labour MPs over remarks made about the town’s notorious child abuse scandal. … Read the full post »
Some serious questions from Michael Crick for Ukip’s leader Paul Nuttall in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election. … Read the full post »