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18 October 2017
Categories: Features , Brexit , Constitutional law
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All out war (Pt 2): Questioning the result of the EU referendum

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Did the Vote Leave NHS funding pledge deprive the UK of membership of the EU?

  • Assessing the impact of the Vote Leave NHS funding pledge on the EU referendum is a matter of causation

Did Vote Leave's controversial NHS funding pledge—we send the EU £350m a week let's fund our NHS instead—deprive the UK of membership of the EU? If it did, and Brexit was also found to represent a change to the style of the Imperial Crown of the UK, then the Vote Leave NHS funding pledge could amount to ‘open and advised speaking’, an offence for the purposes of s 3 of the Treason Felony Act 1848 (TFA 1848) (see ‘All out war: Brexit & the Chartist movement’). 

All Out War in 2016 

All Out War, Tim Shipman's account of the EU Referendum campaign, has been described by Dominic Cummings, the Vote Leave Campaign director, as ‘by far the best and he is the only one to have spoken to

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