‘Bias’ of raid on Brexit HQ under order from Brown

THE electoral watchdog has been accused of anti-Brexit bias for ‘raiding’ Nigel Farage’s party HQ within hours of Gordon Brown demanding an investigation.

Mr Farage’s Brexit Party yesterday unearthed a May 20 letter from the ex-Prime Minister to the Electoral Commission asking it to probe the party’s sources of funding.

An investigation was ‘now urgent and essential’, Mr Brown told the watchdog which visited the party’s offices the very next day.

The ex-PM had called for the watchdog to intervene in a speech, also on May 20.

The Brexit Party says the fact the Commission acted so soon after the letter proved its bias. Chairman Richard Tice said it had ‘forfeited any reputation for honour or fairness’.

The Commission insisted it was ‘an independent and impartial organisation’ and has said the visit was ‘not related to comments made by the former PM’.