
Arron Banks. Image, BBC, fair use.
The Electoral Commission's announcement this week that it is investigating Arron Banks and his vast financial contributions to the Brexit campaign raises a number of questions I’ve been wondering about for a while.
The announcement comes on the back of a long-running investigation by openDemocracy and others into how the various Leave campaigns were funded, including Alastair Sloan and Iain Campbell’s thorough interrogation of all of the publicly available data about Leave donor Arron Banks’ wealth.