Vote Leave faces police probe over spending

Britain’s officially designated Brexit campaign group, Vote Leave, was fined £61,000 yesterday for breaching spending rules in the 2016 referendum and was referred to the police by the electoral commission. The move by the commission, which said serious breaches of the law had been committed by Vote Leave, added to calls from opponents of Brexit for a re-run of the referendum on European Union membership, though Prime Minister Theresa May has repeatedly ruled out another vote. Two years since voting by 52% to 48% to leave the bloc, the United Kingdom, its political and business leaders remain deeply divided over the country’s plans for departing from the EU on March 29, 2019.