abour MP David Lammy said: “This news makes the narrow referendum result look dodgier than ever. It’s validity is now in question. Politicians from all parties have a duty to ask: Do we want to continue with a policy that will wreck our economy and consume government for the next decade, based on this flimsy result?”
Fellow Labour MP Chuka Umunna said: “We know Vote Leave lied on a gargantuan scale—we now know they cheated too and it’s official. Did it affect the result? In a referendum where there was a 4 percent gap between Leave/Remain, they overspent by 10 percent. Go figure.”
As the referendum was not legally binding—the supreme court judged it to be advisory only—a re-run can’t be ordered by a court. Any decision to have a fresh referendum would have to be made by the government and backed by Parliament and there’s no suggestion that will happen.
Despite the findings, allegations of
Russian involvement, and leaders of the campaigns
admitting some of their claims were misleading—Britain still looks set to go through with its biggest political upheaval since the Second World War.
