Eddie Izzard spent £36k - including nearly £200 on chicken - during the EU referendum campaign, figures from the Electoral Commission show.

While on his Stand Up For Europe tour, the comedian spent £127.95 on Nando's and £44.50 on Co-Operative Chicken - part of the £36,229 he spent overall and claimed back in expenses as part of the official Remain campaign.

Mr Izzard travelled to 31 cities over 31 days as part of his pro-EU tour, which took him to universities and city centres across the country.

As well as chicken, he also spent £260.46 at various Wetherspoon pubs - the chain which was staunchly pro-leaving the EU.

Other claims included flights with Ryanair, taxis, costs at a bike maintenance shop in London and £7.99 to online file-hosting site Dropbox.


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Mr Izzard's costs were included in the overall Remain campaign spend of £2,917,667. Leave campaigners spent a total of £1,901,815.

Other big EU referendum spenders included:

:: The J D Wetherspoon pub chain spent £94,586 on various advertising and campaign material

:: Darren Grimes, a campaigner with Vote Leave, spent £400,000 on social media and analytics for the BeLeave online campaign.

:: Wolfgang Tillmans, a German photographer and artist, spent £33,758 on his campaign materials, which included printed T-shirts and posters urging people to "Say You're In If You're In".

:: News Group Newspapers Ltd, which owns The Sun, spent £96,898 on the referendum campaign.

Figures from the commission also revealed that the EU referendum campaign was more than double the cost of the Scottish Independence referendum in 2014.

Bob Posner, the Electoral Commission's director of political finance, said: "The information we have published today provides a first chance to see the amounts of spending by many of the campaigners at the referendum."

Mr Posner added: "The publication of this data is vital in ensuring transparency and accountability, both in how campaigners obtained funds as well as how they spent them."