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Electoral Commission found 3 Leave campaigns broke law. Met police fails to open case citing ‘political sensitivities’. @DamianCollins now demanding official response. ‘I have no idea what is going on’ theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/o…
Will @metpoliceuk respond?@openDemocracy shared email with @observeruk in which Met press officer described ‘political sensitivities’. @DamianCollins makes good point
This is interesting. @DamianCollins says UK security services need to go into Facebook & work with them given their lack of co-operation with UK inquiry
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Meet Victoria Woodcock. She was Vote Leave's operations director. She was also the admin for a shared drive that clearly showed BeLeave & Vote Leave were illicitly co-ordinating. Cummings' name was deleted from this drive after investigations began.
Here we go. Cold, hard evidence. Deleted by someone featured in this drama. It looks like obstruction of justice. It smells like obstruction of justice. And all those people up on screen have refused to answer questions about it...
"Where are we at, Parky?" First reference to Stephen Parkinson. Political secretary to @theresa_may. Special friend of @ShahmirUK. Used number 10 press office to smear & discredit him. Hasn't answered a single question. Close to certain BBC journalists.

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I've seen C4's Brexit: An Uncivil War...& it's a brilliant, compelling drama. James Graham, the writer, captures the campaign's dark toxic heart & Cumberbatch delivers a stand-out performance. But it also whitewashes the deeply serious criminal offences we know were committed..
It's on tonight at 9pm & it's a must-watch. But @ObserverUK & many others (@DamianCollins @chrisinsilico @shahmiruk @AdamRamsay @PeterKGeoghegan @maryftz @JolyonMaugham @EmmaLBriant @Channel4News @brexitsham @tomwatson @peterjukes) are still struggling to try & expose the truth..
.@mrJamesGraham, the writer, hopes it will start a national conversation. I hope so too. Which is why I - & others - will be trying to livetweet the issues it raises, and offences it obscures, in real time...
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Nice try, Tony, but that's bollocks
And @MattGarrahan, Tony Hall has now put @ft into an embarrassing position because you accepted his word and repeated it as fact which it's not so you'll need to add a clarification to this.
This is why it matters, Tony Hall. @afneil's casual misogyny opened a door for others. It gave them permission to abuse me & other women and a language to do it in. The BBC by failing to act implicitly endorsed it. And now, with this erroneous statement you've compounded it again
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A very, very busy 2018 is almost over. Feels apt on back on some of the key stories myself and my @openDemocracy colleagues worked on (and to thank all our supporters). A wee thread follows...
Back in March - months before other outlets... - we worked w/ @Source_Mat to reveal that Arron Banks's Lesotho diamonds weren't all they seemed, and that the biggest Brexit backer was paying cash into bank accounts of a local politician opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/l…
We revealed the "extraordinary" access that then Legatum now IEA hard Brexit advocate Shanker Singham had to government ministers. opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/p… opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/p… Charity regulator subsequently found that Legatum had broken its rules with its pro Brexit work
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In Spring last year Alastair Sloan and Iain Campbell came to me with a short story about Arron Banks, "the man who bought Brexit". They had various documents which seemed to show some surprising things.
We worked with them over the summer, and the short story became a long one. In a way, it's still unfolding. But the bottom line is this: it looked like he couldn't afford the huge donations he funneled into the Brexit campaign. opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/a…
Specifically, after wading through court documents and accounts and talking to former staff, they found a few extraordinary details. Like this.
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Next up at @BylineFest a panel with @DamianCollins and @carolecadwalla

Damian is chair of House of Commons Select Committee for culture Media and also sport, which conducted investigation into ‘fake news’ which followed evidential trail that broadened the remit...
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That investigation ended up looking into Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica law breaking, and produced a comprehensive and extensive report.

Damian starts by speaking a little about his work with the enquiry...

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He says that what he started looking at was content hosted by tech companies that was intended to mislead. It wasn’t just fun or silly stuff like jokes about Trump, it was completely false stuff like the bodies of white women being found with ‘black lives matter’ carved in flesh
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Good to see @nytimes (@cnni , @washingtonpost and others) all asking serious questions about Arron Banks, the man who spent £8+ on Brexit. @openDemocracy has been following Banks, his money and his connections for last year (thread) nytimes.com/2018/06/29/wor…
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Banks has often boasted of his mining interests, but we looked at his holdings in Lesotho and found that claimed finds were 'geologically impossible'. And that his political consultancy had been paying money TO a local party it was supposedly advising opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/l…
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