Why is Britain turning blind eye to Leave side’s lawbreaking?
Illegal fund activity linked to Brexit being ignored in belief ‘the people have spoken’
Vote Leave badge: Almost every aspect of British public life is now refracted through the simplistic slogans of June 2016. Photograph: John Linton/PA
In early 2016, Darren Grimes, a 21-year-old fashion student from Durham, set up a social media campaign to encourage young people to vote to leave the European Union. “BeLeave” raised the princely sum of £21.51 in three months.
Then, in the two weeks before the Brexit referendum, Grimes received a series of massive donations, including £625,000 from the Vote Leave campaign. This money, it was subsequently discovered, was paid directly to a Canadian data analytics firm called Aggregate IQ. It was never even resting in the young student’s account.