@CommonsCMS @DamianCollins .

The real question is this.
What did the Governance Committee (See next tweets) know about these ad contents?

What did the see?
When?
What did they approve?
Turn a blind eye to once published?
What was their job if not to over see content & money?
Each one should be questioned IN DETAIL about what they saw when and what steps (in writing) did each take to prevent such grossly untruthful messages infiltrating social media.

Liam Fox
Iain Duncan Smith
Dominic Raab
Michael Gove
Boris Johnson
Steve Baker
Chris Grayling
3/

Priti Patel
Lord Lawson
Gisela Stuart
Matthew Elliot
Andrea Leadsom
Dominic Cummings
Lord Forsyth
Theresa Villiers
Frank Field
John Whittingdale
4/. What does “Governance” mean if it is not to oversee and accept or reject key messages in a campaign and the spending of money?

What did people like Paul Stephenson know, saw and approved?

What was the approval process for comms?

He was the Vote Leave Comms Director
5/
This is what he said about the critical importance of two lies. The £350 mill pow for the NHS and Turkey joining the EU.

Who made the ads?
Under whose direction?
Who signed them off?
What did the Governance Committee see and approve?

Don’t tell me they didn’t see this stuff
6/
Stephenson said: "Keep it simple - I think by the end of the referendum people were talking about our simple messages like the £350m a week figure and Turkey joining the EU; we used language people could use in the street or in the pub."

Read more at prweek.com/article/140847…
A load of the people on that Governance (note that word) are past or present ministers in GOVERNment.

These questions go to the heart of how seriously they take the business of GOVERNance.

Each one should be called to the committee.

Paul Stephenson 1st, now of Hanbury Strategy
8/. Paul Stephenson worked on Gove’s Leadership bid.

He’s been a SPAD. (Was it IDS?).

Hanbury Strategy had a contract with AiQ. Here’s the letter from ACOBA saying Hanbury should have no contact with Govt re AiQ.

gov.uk/government/upl…
9/
Meanwhile here is Aggregate iQ Director, Jeff Silveste, on the steps on No10 in Autumn of 2017.

Massingham or Silvester at Conservative HQ too?

All these questions about who knew what and when..or what they chose NOT to know must be answered

10/. Let’s make no bones about it @CommonsCMS @DamianCollins @carolecadwalla @peterjukes

Those FB ads were not just fake news so squarely in your remit, but MUST have come under the scrutiny of the Governance Committeee that were to meet every week to DO the job of governance.
11/
However uncomfortable it might be each one on that committee should be questioned by your committee and the police.
ALL their emails should be seized for the whole period.

Any attempt to delete or otherwise conceal them should be taken to be Perverting the Course of Justice.

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