Brexit cancelled? Yesterday’s claim from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie that the Leave campaign won by “cheating” has some Remainers calling for a second vote and others hoping that the result can simply be overturned by Parliament.
Did the Leave campaign cheat? The problem is that British electoral law is based on a series of fictions, and both sides did what they could to maximise the electoral bang they got for the financial buck. If Vote Leave or any of the other Brexit campaigns ended up on the wrong side of the law, then they should face the subsequent consequences. But no Remainer should kid themselves that their side wasn’t up to similar tricks.
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