Brexit: Police hand Vote Leave file to Crown Prosecution Service
Police investigating alleged breaches of election law by the Vote Leave campaign have passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service. Scotland Yard said it had sought advice on its investigation into the official Brexit campaign, which followed an Electoral Commission probe last year. The commission found Vote Leave exceeded a £7 million spending limit. Vote Leave has previously said the commission's findings were "wholly inaccurate" and politically motivated. The Vote Leave campaign, which was fronted by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, won the contest to be the official Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum on whether Britain should stay in the European Union.
Johnson ‘knew about Vote Leave’s illegal overspend’, says MP
Boris Johnson knew of Vote Leave’s overspend during the 2016 EU referendum, but appears to have failed to tell the authorities, according to explosive new claims from a senior MP. The payment was subsequently ruled to be illegal. Ian Lucas revealed that he has seen correspondence obtained during the parliamentary inquiry into disinformation and democracy which showed that Johnson’s most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, told the Electoral Commission that the prime minister, and his cabinet colleague Michael Gove, knew of the overspend by the pro-Brexit organisation.
“What’s quite clear is Cummings, Johnson and Gove are absolutely in this up to their necks. They must now come clean about everything they knew about these offences. Boris Johnson is simply not fit to be prime minister. He clearly has no respect for the law,” Lucas said.
'Spending taps' The Sunday Express devotes its front page to an interview with Boris Johnson, in which he promises to drive through his Brexit deal at full speed, if he wins the general election. He tells the paper he'll get "Brexit wrapped up fast". The Sun says the suggestion that Britain could be out of the EU - "before the Christmas turkey is cooked" - should be "music to the ears" of voters, sick of more than three years of political in-fighting. However, the Sunday Times detects signs of Tory nervousness in the face of what it calls a recent Labour bounce in support. It adds that the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party are set to reveal a Remain pact in up to 60 seats, in an effort to deny Mr Johnson a majority.
In a nod to the uncertainty surrounding the election, a Matt cartoon in the Telegraph shows an amateur psephologist holding forth in a pub. "If the Not Sures refuse a Pact with the Don't Knows, it could split the Undivided Vote," is his prediction. "Tories turn on the spending taps," runs a headline in the Mail on Sunday, in its coverage of the government's plans to end the benefits freeze from April. The Sunday Times, says the spending commitment - to be accompanied by a rise in the state pension - is aimed squarely at blue-collar workers. It reports that Mr Johnson's senior aide, Dominic Cummings, has told colleagues that "people are hurting", and if the Conservatives are to pick up seats in Leave areas in the north, they have to do more to help the working poor. But the Mail on Sunday suggests the plans to ditch the last remnants of David Cameron's austerity drive could mean trouble ahead. The paper reports that the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, has privately expressed concern that the expensive set of manifesto policies could "drastically" reduce his room for manoeuvre to deliver tax cuts for traditional Tory voters.
'Great untapped properties' The Sunday Mirror predicts that Labour's plans to insulate millions of homes across the country could create 450,000 construction jobs, as workers fit the loft insulation, solar power and double glazing needed. According to the Sunday Telegraph, the scheme aims to eradicate the vast majority of fuel poverty by the middle of the next decade. Finally, the Sunday Times says the prospective sale of the Daily Telegraph has attracted unexpected interest from America. It claims that Steve Bannon - the controversial mastermind of Donald Trump's presidential campaign - wants to put together a consortium to turn the newspaper into a global voice "promoting populist nationalism". The Telegraph is one of the "great untapped properties," the Times quotes Mr Bannon as saying. But the paper says it is less clear whether the former White House strategist can come up with the nine-figure asking price.
DWP chief refuses to sack Tory who said Benefits Street stars must be 'put down' Tory DWP chief Therese Coffey is accused of "contempt" for the poor after she said she'd still vote for Francesca O’Brien as a general election candidate in marginal Gower
Boris Johnson accidentally made an incredibly compelling argument against his own Brexit deal
Boris Johnson just accidentally made the perfect argument for remaining in the EU. Speaking in Northern Ireland, Johnson said his Brexit deal would allow the province to keep free movement and access to the Single Market and described this as a "great deal" However, these benefits will both be lost by the rest of the United Kingdon. This provokes the obvious question as to why his deal denies this to the rest of the UK.
Tory minister can't say if immigration will go up or down in car crash interview Victoria Atkins had a bit of a general election mare on BBC Radio 4's Today programme
General election: Tory skewered over ‘fake news’ £1.2tn Labour spending claim in car crash interview Kwasi Kwarteng's Sky News interview turned into a Sunday morning anxiety dream as he was asked the most ridiculously obvious question eight times - and just couldn't answer it
A top Tory has been skewered over the party's "ludicrous fake news" claim that Labour would spend £1.2trillion in five years in a car crash TV interview. Flailing Kwasi Kwarteng failed eight times to answer the most obvious question of them all - if you're claiming Labour will cost £1.2tn, then what will the Tories' plans cost?
Brexit 'could mean border checks between England, Scotland and Wales' Issues such as chlorinated chicken and genetically-modified (GM) crops in post-Brexit trade negotiations could create wide differences between the nations' food safety standards
Border checks between Scotland, England and Wales could be required because of varying food standards after Brexit, academics have warned. Issues such as chlorinated chicken and genetically-modified (GM) crops in post-Brexit trade negotiations could create wider differences between the nations' food safety standards and require border checks between countries, University of Sussex academics have said.
With the Scottish and Welsh Governments pledging to remain aligned to EU standards after Brexit, trade deals made by the UK Government “could complicate and undermine trade in agricultural and food products”, the report states.
The university study, carried out for the UK Trade Policy Observatory, said different approaches to food standards would likely have a “significant and detrimental impact” on the ability to strike trade deals and “poses an increased risk of fragmentation” within the UK.
Boris Johnson says single market access after Brexit is ‘great deal’ for Northern Ireland Critics ask why PM wants to drag the UK out of the EU if the terms of its membership are so beneficial
Boris Johnson has been caught on camera extolling the virtues of key elements of EU membership to a group of Conservatives in Northern Ireland. The prime minister told Tory members they had a “great” Brexit deal – as it retains access to the single market and freedom of movement – which the rest of the UK will lose under the terms of Mr Johnson’s blueprint.
As the footage emerged, critics demanded to know why the prime minister was dragging Britain out of the EU if he believed the terms of its membership were so beneficial.
Mr Johnson made the comments as he hit the campaign trail in Northern Ireland, where he also restated dubious claims that there would be no checks on goods travelling between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
His remarks directly contradict both Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith and Brexit secretary Steve Barclay, who said last month that Northern Ireland businesses would need fill out export declaration forms when sending goods to Britain under the terms of the new Brexit deal.
I can’t see what all the fuss is about regarding chlorinated chicken and GM crops. The chemicals etc put in our foods already are far worse.
You are kidding right?
The EU categorically have higher standards than the US.
Hormone fed beef?
The US Food and Drug Administration states the maximum levels of “natural or unavoidable defects” in food that “present no health hazard”, including rat hairs and maggots.
The Food Defect Levels Handbook allows up to 11 rodent hairs per 25g of ground paprika and one or more maggots in 250ml of orange juice.
Up to 30 insect fragments are acceptable in 100g of peanut butter and 10 fly eggs per 100g of tinned tomatoes.
And there can be a maximum of 100 insect fragments in 25g curry powder.
The FDA sets the sickening levels “because it is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects”
A parliamentary report picked out some key differences as including: “the US uses chemical washes, such as chlorine, in its production process… the US uses growth hormones in animal feed… GM foods are sold without labelling in the US… and… pesticides banned in the EU can be used in the US.”
No, I’m not kidding. With the cost of healthcare in the US, if there was a problem with their food processes and end product, I think it would have been banned in their own country. Or, due to the cost again for healthcare, folk would swerve certain products. There’s been plenty of cases of bad food practices in this country, hence food inspectors, and businesses being closed down. Chlorine washes are used in the Euro Zone as it is. Travelers to other countries eat street food? There’s little in the way of controls or hygiene standards in lots of places. Plenty of folk get food poisoning in this country and the Euro Zone. Sometimes there’s not much different between high, medium or low standards. Unless somebody pushes it, mostly for there own gain. There’s far worst places to eat than in the USA. Folk from here don’t go on their hols to the USA and eat anything? Those that played poker in Las Vegas avoided food? Which country had the most cases of mad cow disease? There’s more protein in a maggot than in a packet of crisps. Food additives are far worse for the human body than anything coming from the USA.
No, I’m not kidding. With the cost of healthcare in the US, if there was a problem with their food processes and end product, I think it would have been banned in their own country. Or, due to the cost again for healthcare, folk would swerve certain products. There’s been plenty of cases of bad food practices in this country, hence food inspectors, and businesses being closed down. Chlorine washes are used in the Euro Zone as it is. Travelers to other countries eat street food? There’s little in the way of controls or hygiene standards in lots of places. Plenty of folk get food poisoning in this country and the Euro Zone. Sometimes there’s not much different between high, medium or low standards. Unless somebody pushes it, mostly for there own gain. There’s far worst places to eat than in the USA. Folk from here don’t go on their hols to the USA and eat anything? Those that played poker in Las Vegas avoided food? Which country had the most cases of mad cow disease? There’s more protein in a maggot than in a packet of crisps. Food additives are far worse for the human body than anything coming from the USA.
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Police investigating alleged breaches of election law by the Vote Leave campaign have passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Scotland Yard said it had sought advice on its investigation into the official Brexit campaign, which followed an Electoral Commission probe last year.
The commission found Vote Leave exceeded a £7 million spending limit.
Vote Leave has previously said the commission's findings were "wholly inaccurate" and politically motivated.
The Vote Leave campaign, which was fronted by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, won the contest to be the official Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum on whether Britain should stay in the European Union.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50276673
Boris Johnson knew of Vote Leave’s overspend during the 2016 EU referendum, but appears to have failed to tell the authorities, according to explosive new claims from a senior MP. The payment was subsequently ruled to be illegal.
Ian Lucas revealed that he has seen correspondence obtained during the parliamentary inquiry into disinformation and democracy which showed that Johnson’s most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, told the Electoral Commission that the prime minister, and his cabinet colleague Michael Gove, knew of the overspend by the pro-Brexit organisation.
“What’s quite clear is Cummings, Johnson and Gove are absolutely in this up to their necks. They must now come clean about everything they knew about these offences. Boris Johnson is simply not fit to be prime minister. He clearly has no respect for the law,” Lucas said.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/johnson-knew-about-vote-leaves-illegal-overspend-says-mp/ar-AAJKTbw?ocid=spartanntp
The Sunday Express devotes its front page to an interview with Boris Johnson, in which he promises to drive through his Brexit deal at full speed, if he wins the general election.
He tells the paper he'll get "Brexit wrapped up fast".
The Sun says the suggestion that Britain could be out of the EU - "before the Christmas turkey is cooked" - should be "music to the ears" of voters, sick of more than three years of political in-fighting.
However, the Sunday Times detects signs of Tory nervousness in the face of what it calls a recent Labour bounce in support.
It adds that the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party are set to reveal a Remain pact in up to 60 seats, in an effort to deny Mr Johnson a majority.
In a nod to the uncertainty surrounding the election, a Matt cartoon in the Telegraph shows an amateur psephologist holding forth in a pub.
"If the Not Sures refuse a Pact with the Don't Knows, it could split the Undivided Vote," is his prediction.
"Tories turn on the spending taps," runs a headline in the Mail on Sunday, in its coverage of the government's plans to end the benefits freeze from April.
The Sunday Times, says the spending commitment - to be accompanied by a rise in the state pension - is aimed squarely at blue-collar workers.
It reports that Mr Johnson's senior aide, Dominic Cummings, has told colleagues that "people are hurting", and if the Conservatives are to pick up seats in Leave areas in the north, they have to do more to help the working poor.
But the Mail on Sunday suggests the plans to ditch the last remnants of David Cameron's austerity drive could mean trouble ahead.
The paper reports that the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, has privately expressed concern that the expensive set of manifesto policies could "drastically" reduce his room for manoeuvre to deliver tax cuts for traditional Tory voters.
'Great untapped properties'
The Sunday Mirror predicts that Labour's plans to insulate millions of homes across the country could create 450,000 construction jobs, as workers fit the loft insulation, solar power and double glazing needed.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the scheme aims to eradicate the vast majority of fuel poverty by the middle of the next decade.
Finally, the Sunday Times says the prospective sale of the Daily Telegraph has attracted unexpected interest from America.
It claims that Steve Bannon - the controversial mastermind of Donald Trump's presidential campaign - wants to put together a consortium to turn the newspaper into a global voice "promoting populist nationalism".
The Telegraph is one of the "great untapped properties," the Times quotes Mr Bannon as saying.
But the paper says it is less clear whether the former White House strategist can come up with the nine-figure asking price.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-50278483
Tory DWP chief Therese Coffey is accused of "contempt" for the poor after she said she'd still vote for Francesca O’Brien as a general election candidate in marginal Gower
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-chief-backs-keeping-tory-20806739
Boris Johnson just accidentally made the perfect argument for remaining in the EU.
Speaking in Northern Ireland, Johnson said his Brexit deal would allow the province to keep free movement and access to the Single Market and described this as a "great deal"
However, these benefits will both be lost by the rest of the United Kingdon.
This provokes the obvious question as to why his deal denies this to the rest of the UK.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/boris-johnson-accidentally-made-an-incredibly-compelling-argument-against-his-own-brexit-deal/ar-BBWsCrz?ocid=spartanntp
Victoria Atkins had a bit of a general election mare on BBC Radio 4's Today
programme
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-minister-cant-say-immigration-20839790
Kwasi Kwarteng's Sky News interview turned into a Sunday morning anxiety dream as he was asked the most ridiculously obvious question eight times - and just couldn't answer it
A top Tory has been skewered over the party's "ludicrous fake news" claim that Labour would spend £1.2trillion in five years in a car crash TV interview.
Flailing Kwasi Kwarteng failed eight times to answer the most obvious question of them all - if you're claiming Labour will cost £1.2tn, then what will the Tories' plans cost?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/general-election-tory-skewered-over-20852620
Issues such as chlorinated chicken and genetically-modified (GM) crops in post-Brexit trade negotiations could create wide differences between the nations' food safety standards
Border checks between Scotland, England and Wales could be required because of varying food standards after Brexit, academics have warned.
Issues such as chlorinated chicken and genetically-modified (GM) crops in post-Brexit trade negotiations could create wider differences between the nations' food safety standards and require border checks between countries, University of Sussex academics have said.
With the Scottish and Welsh Governments pledging to remain aligned to EU standards after Brexit, trade deals made by the UK Government “could complicate and undermine trade in agricultural and food products”, the report states.
The university study, carried out for the UK Trade Policy Observatory, said different approaches to food standards would likely have a “significant and detrimental impact” on the ability to strike trade deals and “poses an increased risk of fragmentation” within the UK.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-border-checks-england-scotland-wales-food-safety-standards-a9186386.html
Critics ask why PM wants to drag the UK out of the EU if the terms of its membership are so beneficial
Boris Johnson has been caught on camera extolling the virtues of key elements of EU membership to a group of Conservatives in Northern Ireland.
The prime minister told Tory members they had a “great” Brexit deal – as it retains access to the single market and freedom of movement – which the rest of the UK will lose under the terms of Mr Johnson’s blueprint.
As the footage emerged, critics demanded to know why the prime minister was dragging Britain out of the EU if he believed the terms of its membership were so beneficial.
Mr Johnson made the comments as he hit the campaign trail in Northern Ireland, where he also restated dubious claims that there would be no checks on goods travelling between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
His remarks directly contradict both Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith and Brexit secretary Steve Barclay, who said last month that Northern Ireland businesses would need fill out export declaration forms when sending goods to Britain under the terms of the new Brexit deal.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-boris-johnson-northern-ireland-speech-general-election-single-market-a9194476.html
The chemicals etc put in our foods already are far worse.
You are kidding right?
The EU categorically have higher standards than the US.
Hormone fed beef?
The US Food and Drug Administration states the maximum levels of “natural or unavoidable defects” in food that “present no health hazard”, including rat hairs and maggots.
The Food Defect Levels Handbook allows up to 11 rodent hairs per 25g of ground paprika and one or more maggots in 250ml of orange juice.
Up to 30 insect fragments are acceptable in 100g of peanut butter and 10 fly eggs per 100g of tinned tomatoes.
And there can be a maximum of 100 insect fragments in 25g curry powder.
The FDA sets the sickening levels “because it is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1200200/general-election-news-jeremy-corbyn-food-standards-us-trade-deal-boris-johnson
A parliamentary report picked out some key differences as including: “the US uses chemical washes, such as chlorine, in its production process… the US uses growth hormones in animal feed… GM foods are sold without labelling in the US… and… pesticides banned in the EU can be used in the US.”
https://fullfact.org/europe/usa-trade-food-standards/
With the cost of healthcare in the US, if there was a problem with their food processes and end product, I think it would have been banned in their own country.
Or, due to the cost again for healthcare, folk would swerve certain products.
There’s been plenty of cases of bad food practices in this country, hence food inspectors, and businesses being closed down.
Chlorine washes are used in the Euro Zone as it is.
Travelers to other countries eat street food? There’s little in the way of controls or hygiene standards in lots of places.
Plenty of folk get food poisoning in this country and the Euro Zone.
Sometimes there’s not much different between high, medium or low standards.
Unless somebody pushes it, mostly for there own gain.
There’s far worst places to eat than in the USA.
Folk from here don’t go on their hols to the USA and eat anything?
Those that played poker in Las Vegas avoided food?
Which country had the most cases of mad cow disease?
There’s more protein in a maggot than in a packet of crisps.
Food additives are far worse for the human body than anything coming from the USA.