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Vote Leave illegal spending “sufficient enough” to swing the result of the referendum
One of the world's leading experts in computational propaganda has concluded Vote Leave's illegal overspending was "very likely" to have been sufficient to swing the result of the referendum. Professor Philip Howard, director of the Oxford Internet Institute, has presented exhaustive analysis of the campaign’s digital strategy to the High Court which concludes it reached “tens of millions of people” in its last crucial days after its spending limit had been breached. It is more than plausible that the reach was...
Fears growing for missing two-year-old girl
Antonia Matei, aged two, and 39-year-old father Alexandru Matei were last seen at about 1.30pm yesterday (wed)
Boris Johnson told to apologise for not declaring over £50k income on time
Boris Johnson has found himself in hot water again. Only a few weeks after his water cannons were sold off at a huge loss. Now he has been told to apologise, in Parliament, after he repeatedly failed to register payments from his newspaper column and books.The totals involved with the nine late-registered payments was £52,722.80 In a report, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, said that Boris admitted he had failed to register payments in time on nine occasions in...
Police hunting man who caught touching himself inappropriately – at midday on the Tube
The victim was travelling on a Northern Line carriage when she noticed a man appeared to be pleasuring himself while staring at her.
Mother of London man killed by moped riders for Rolex demands suspect is found
Danny Pearce, 31, was chased, shot and stabbed by moped riders as he walked along a street with his girlfriend, because he refused to hand over his timepiece.
Cocky county line drug dealer smirking on mugshot is jailed
Kamran Rashid was part of a County Lines gang flooding Hereford with heroin and crack cocaine
Three men were stabbed in two horror attacks in lawless London last night
A man, 27, suffered neck and head wounds, and another, 29, was knifed in the wrist after a street brawl broke out in Haringey, north London.
The pound is shackled by Brexit
The pound is shackled by Brexit drama, is locked in a holding pattern, and nothing is currently priced in, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. The warning from Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group, comes as sterling remains vulnerable to every twist and turn to the political saga over the UK’s exit of the European Union. Mr Green comments: “The pound has been and remains the primary market bellwether since...
UK ‘golden visa’ scheme to be suspended over corruption fears
The global super-rich hoping to live and invest in the UK will face new visa restrictions as part of Home Office reforms designed to tackle organised crime and money laundering. It will be suspended from Friday until new rules are put in place in 2019. Responding to the government’s imminent suspension of its ’Golden Visa’ schemes, Ava Lee, Anti-Corruption Campaigner at Global Witness said: “It is shameful that the UK government has sold residency to the super wealthy in return...