‘The Remain side lied too’: Vote Leave staffer appears to admit ‘lying’ in awkward Question Time exchange ‘You say lied also? You were all lying,’ host David Dimbleby asked to uproar from the audience

A woman claiming to be a Vote Leave staffer appeared to admit the campaign lied during the Brexit campaign as she rowed with the audience during BBC Question Time.

The unnamed woman made a contribution as the panel debated the importance of the Irish border issue, which is threatening to derail Brexit talks at a critical juncture.

Labour’s shadow Brexit Secretary Kier Starmer said that his party viewed remaining in the EU’s Custom Union as a solution to solve the need for no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

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The woman told the MP for Holborn and St Pancras: “I’m sorry I have to say this. I worked as a member of staff on the Vote Leave campaign and we were very clear about what leaving meant and people voted for that.”

“You lied,” another member of the audience remarked, prompting laughter in the crowd.

“Yeah because the Remain campaign really told the truth, didn’t they,” she hit back.

Is peace process the price?

Mr Starmer cut in: “If there is no alternative, to protect the peace process in Northern Ireland, are you really saying that you would give that up as a price for Brexit.”

She responded: “I’m saying that people voted to leave completely. Staying in a customs union is not what people voted for, and we were very clear about going and going completely.”

Host David Dimbleby asked her: “Which bit of the campaign? Were you on the official campaign, for Leave?”

“Yeah, in the finance department,” she replied prompting howls from the audience. “But I would point out that the Remain Campaign lied also. A lot,” she went on.

Dimbleby said to uproar from the crowd: ” You say lied also? You were all lying.”

Vote Leave

The official Vote Leave campaign was fined and referred to the police by the Electoral Commission in July this year, for exceeding its legal spending limit.

But the High Court ruled in September that the Electoral Commission has “misinterpreted” the rules surrounding referendum expenses.