Conservative MP deliberately broke campaign spending rules, court hears

A lawmaker from Prime Minister Theresa May's minority ruling Conservative Party deliberately made false declarations over his spending in a 2015 election, a prosecutor told a London court on Tuesday.Craig Mackinlay, 52, who beat leading Brexit figure Nigel Farage in the parliamentary election for South Thanet in southeastern England in 2015, earlier this year pleaded not guilty to the charges."Far from being complete and inaccurate, the (expenses) returns were woefully incomplete and woefully in