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The chairman of the electoral commission has apologised to Brexiteers for the “horrible” treatment they recieved after the EU referendum.

Britain’s Electoral Commission has rejected efforts to register Black Lives Matter as a political party on grounds that it would be “likely to mislead voters”. “The application to register Black Lives Matter as a political party was refused by the

The Conservative Party said that the Electoral Commission is “not fit for purpose” and is “accountable to no-one” and therefore should either be abolished or drastically reformed, after years of accusations of anti-Brexit bias.

London’s Metropolitan Police have finally dropped their investigations into working-class Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes and Vote Leave’s Alan Halsall, in another defeat for the supposedly neutral Electoral Commission.

Baz Ahmed, the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) officer for Labour in Plymouth, has been reported to police for alleged “clear voter fraud”.

Britain’s equivalent of the FBI, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has dropped its investigation into a network of pro-Brexit groups and individuals including Aaron Banks and Leave.EU, saying they could find “no evidence” of any crimes.

The Electoral Commission has finally conceded that Remain campaigners broke electoral rules on joint spending during the EU referendum and issued fines.

So now we know what Boris Johnson’s most pressing task when he becomes the United Kingdom’s prime minister next Tuesday: destroy the Electoral Commission.

The courts have quashed a huge fine against working-class Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes, which many Remain campaigners had used to discredit the legitimacy of the Leave vote in 2016.

Here are the three things which have most shocked and disgusted (though not surprised) me about the European Elections.

Nigel Farage has railed against the Electoral Commission in an impassioned interview on LBC radio and at a speech in Bolton.

Remain-supporting Commons speaker John Bercow had the Electoral Commission set aside hundreds of thousands of pounds to fight the EU’s May 2019 elections all the way back in May 2018, when it was still the official policy that Britain would be leaving the bloc on March 29th.

My question to the Conservative MPs in parliament right now is: why are you not protecting us? Why are you not fighting for our freedoms? Why are you letting the Deep State get away with it?

A number of Labour MPs are calling for Brexit to be immediately halted after the Electoral Commission referred Brexit donor Arron Banks to the National Crime Agency (NCA).

The Electoral Commission has cleared the UK Independence Party (UKIP) of breaking rules in 2015 and 2016, after a two-year investigation.

The High Court has ruled that the Electoral Commission issued incorrect advice to Vote Leave campaigners during the referendum, in a massive blow to those pushing to discredit the Brexit vote.

The £9.3 million pro-Brussels propaganda drive by David Cameron’s government ahead of the Brexit referendum gave the ‘Remain’ side an unfair advantage, a cross-party Independent Commission on Referendums says.

The Electoral Commission has been called biased and politicised after attacking and fining the Vote Leave campaign — a move which sparked new calls for Brexit to be overturned.

The left-wing Guardian newspaper has issued a correction after an article about the pro-Brexit group co-founded by Arron Banks was revealed to be based on false claims.

Pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU has hit back after being fined £70,000 by the electoral commission, who claim they overspent ahead of the 2016 referendum, and a senior figure has been referred to police.

The past week has been full of news stories surrounding Brexit, a Facebook data-mining initiative by Cambridge Analytica, and a new “whistleblower” making allegations about the behaviour of the establishment Vote Leave campaign. No such scrutiny nor column inches have

Britain’s elections watchdog has imposed big fines on the EU referendum’s official Remain campaign and on the Liberal Democrats, for filing inaccurate and incomplete spending returns.

Britain’s largest Leave campaign is turning its firepower on the Electoral Commission after it announced a probe into Brexit backer Arron Banks.

The Electoral Commission is investigating key Brexit backer Arron Banks in response to Remainers attempting to tie him to a Russian conspiracy theory.

The Electoral Commission has fined the European Movement, an active participant in the EU referendum which helped set up the official Remain campaign, for filing false returns.

The UK Electoral Commission has suggested banning internet trolls from being able to vote in elections, according to a report.

The Electoral Commission is investigating “troubling” reports of ‘double voting’ amidst growing evidence students boosted Labour support with the illegal practice at the election.

LONDON (AFP) – The street artist Banksy has scrapped an offer to give a limited-edition design to people who vote against the Tories in Britain’s elections on Thursday, after the authorities intervened.

The Electoral Commission has fined the Conservative party a record £70,000 over missing and unreported payments, claiming the rule breaking gave them a “realistic prospect” of an unfair advantage over UKIP in South Thanet.

Jeremy Corbyn, the embattled leader of the opposition UK Labour Party, has been accused of accepting campaign funds from a group with links to the Hamas terrorist organisation.

A polling station in England has been forced to remove the St. George’s flag, after a man on social media claimed it was a “dog whistle for the leave campaign” and made the room look “like an EDL rally”. The

The referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union may face a legal challenge after the government extended the deadline for registering to vote by two days. Britons had originally been given until midnight Tuesday to register to vote in

The Electoral Commission has come under attack from the Conservative Party, regarding the impartiality of senior staff and suggestions that bias influenced decisions not to investigate Labour and Scottish Nationalist election spending. Conservative Party lawyers have opened a new front in

AFP — Thousands of EU citizens who are not eligible to vote in Britain’s referendum have mistakenly received polling cards and postal votes, the election regulator said Friday. The Electoral Commission said that so far, it had found 3,462 ineligible

EU citizens who are not eligible to vote in this month’s referendum have been sent polling cards and postal votes due to a software error, the Electoral Commission has admitted. The Commission admitted it did not yet know how many

Three of the 10 members of the Electoral Commission committee that decided on the designation for the official “Leave” campaign had to excuse themselves from the meeting due to European Union (EU) links, with a further three also declaring interests