EdStone leads to £20k fine for Labour over undeclared election spending

At £7,600, it was a lot to pay for a widely panned election gimmick - but now the ill-fated EdStone has cost Labour a lot more. Twenty thousand pounds more to be precise, after the Electoral Commission fined the party for failing to include invoices, including those for the two-tonne, limestone statue, in its spending returns. The investigation into the party's 2015 general election spending was triggered when two payments totalling £7,614 relating to spending on Ed Miliband's s