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Revealed: Met Police ignored Brexit campaign evidence for months

Scotland Yard claimed it didn’t receive key evidence about Leave campaigns until September. But the evidence was ready from May. They just didn’t bother to collect it.

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan was told by the Met that it hadn't "received" the documents, when really the police just hadn't bothered to pick them up. Image, Lee, Flickr, some rights reserved.

The Metropolitan Police Service ignored potential criminal evidence gathered by the Electoral Commission on three key pro-Brexit campaign groups for four months, openDemocracy can reveal.