Vote Leave loses legal challenge over Brexit spending breach

Matthew Elliott, the former chief executive of Vote Leave, has claimed the commission was driven by a political agenda.The official pro-Brexit campaign group has lost a judicial review aimed at trying to get an Electoral Commission ruling that it breached spending limits thrown out.Vote Leave was challenging the findings of a report issued in July that it had exceeded the prescribed £7m limit by channeling funds via another campaign group, but the high court concluded on Wednesday that its