Quaker MEP calls for Vote Leave ministers to go
Molly Scott Cato has repeated calls for ministers behind the Vote Leave campaign to be sacked
Molly Scott Cato MEP has renewed her call for the ministers behind the Vote Leave campaign to be sacked. The demand came after the campaign group dropped its appeal against the Electoral Commission’s ruling last year that it broke the law by funnelling hundreds of thousands of pounds of donations to an ostensibly independent campaign group, BeLeave.
The MEP for South West England and Gibraltar told the Friend: ‘I do not believe that people who were party to the illegality that is now confirmed are appropriate for public office. Rather we need a full public inquiry into the illegality and foreign involvement in the EU referendum.’
Conservatives Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have been facing growing calls to account for the campaign’s illegal behaviour. Boris Johnson originally called the report ‘utterly ludicrous’.
Molly Scott Cato tweeted: ‘When the #VoteLeave law-breaking was first revealed I argued that ministers behind it should be sacked. Raab, Johnson, and Baker have since resigned. That leaves Fox, Gove, and Grayling to be removed now that the illegality they condoned is confirmed.’
The MEP originally made the call in The Guardian in July 2018 when she reminded the prime minister that ‘we are signatories to the Venice commission which states that campaign overspending is adequate grounds for annulling an election result’.
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