Image copyright Reuters Image caption Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg resigned in 2015, after the party kept just eight of the 57 seats won in 2010 The Liberal Democrats have been fined £20,000 by the Electoral Commission for failing to declare all their spending in the 2015 general election campaign.
An investigation by the commission found that 307 payments totalling £184,676 were missing from the party"s spending return.
The commission said it had referred the matter to the police to see if any criminal offences had been committed.
The Lib Dems said “human error and failures of process” were to blame.
Bob Posner, director of political finance at the Electoral Commission, said their investigation uncovered “systemic failures in ensuring that the rules were being followed”.
“This is an experienced party that failed to meet the basic requirements of the law, and cases like this undermine voters" confidence in our political finance system,” he said.
“This is why we have applied t..
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