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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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What on earth is going on?
Did Vote Leave's chief strategist, Dom Cummings, tell a massive lie?
Or is there another explanation?
New Vote Leave investigation goes nowhere near far enough. My latest asks: why not??
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
Here's Vote Leave's Dom Cummings saying he got a letter of permission from Electoral Commission to make donations to other campaigns.
And here's my FOI request saying he didn't.
Just how far up does go? What does Michael Gove know? What does Theresa May? Her top political aide is directly involved. And...why no investigation of DUP??
This is from Vote Leave's official application to be lead campaign. Facebook & Twitter "not appropriate primary platform for this historic debate".
This is Dom Cummings says he actually did: spend 98% of budget online
Those "physicists" where are they in Vote Leave's spending returns?
I can't find them.
I can't find the "West coast academics".
A gift from a foreign company or individual would be impermissible...so would have to be paid for & declared. Where?
In its official application, Vote Leave pledged to tell people the "facts" about the EU.
Facts like these:
facebook.com/voteleave/vide…
...thanks to Swiss/Belgian data guru @podehaye & New Yorker @emlas - only person I know who's looked for Vote Leave's dark posts. And @SKinnock for continuing to ask the questions here:
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
Oh, and this new story about Legatum?
Don't forget Vote Leave's CEO, @matthew_elliott is paid £££ as "Legatum fellow".
And Vote Leave's leader - Boris Johnson & Michael Gove - behind this 'plot'
dailym.ai/2i628cH
Another big question about Vote Leave not part of new investigation. @AdamRamsay & @PeterKGeoghegan relentlessly pursuing...

opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/p…
Finally..congrats @JolyonMaugham for his part in getting new investigation into Vote Leave opened. And bravo & big thanks to Observer esp @paulfwebster @sarah_donaldson & @guardian's @ladywell23 without whom not a word of this would ever be published...
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