Vote Leave inquiry
THE elections watchdog is expected to find that official Brexit campaign Vote Leave broke spending rules during the 2016 referendum.
The campaign group’s former chief executive, Matthew Elliott, said the Electoral Commission had concluded that Vote Leave, supported by Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, exceeded spending limits by making a donation to another Brexit-backing group. If found guilty, the campaign could face a hefty fine. POLICE are continuing to search the home of a nurse arrested on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of six others.
Officers are said to have arrived at the home of Lucy Letby, 28, around 6am on Tuesday, hours before police announced a female healthcare professional had been arrested in a probe into the deaths of 17 infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
The arrest comes as part of a long-running investigation by Cheshire Constabulary following a high number of baby deaths at the hospital’s neonatal unit.
Officers were also seen at her parents’ property in Hereford later on Tuesday.
Detectives launched an investigation into infant deaths in May last year, initially looking at the deaths of 15 babies between June 2015 and June 2016.
Police said the probe had widened to include 17 deaths and 15 non-fatal collapses of babies between March 2015 and July 2016.
Detective Inspector Paul Hughes said the arrest was a “significant step forward” in what was a “highly complex and very sensitive investigation”.
The hospital said it is “confident the unit is safe to continue in its current form”.