earlier, on the andrew marr programme, gisela stuart explained the reasons behind dropping the appealeen outspent at every stage of this process. before the referendum started the government spent 9.4 million on a leaflet. during the campaign, money was the question. collectively the remain side spent more and going to appeals cost money, too. sorry to interrupt. there is one other point. if people who now argue for a second referendum, if we had a campaign where we honestly always tried to be rule compliant, we had a compliance committee, and every other organisation across the board has been found wanting at some stage. the legislation for a referendum... you did not try very hard because you overspent to the tune of £675,000, a massive amount of money which the electoral commission thought was a very serious electoral offence. you broke the law, it happened under your watch in this organisation, will you apologise to people for that? it was in relation to one particular donation where the electoral commission interpreted the rules as acting in concert, and we had legal advice which

the former labour mp gisela stuart, a key figure in the vote leave campaign, has refused to apologisetion dropped its appeal against a fine after it was found to have exceeded spending limits during the referendum. in ukraine, a comedian with no political experience is on course to win the most votes in the presidential election. exit polls suggest volodymyr zelenskiy — who plays the president in a satirical tv show — is expected to beat the incumbent petro poroshenko in the first round of voting today. jonah fisher reports. fa ct fact is very quickly catching up with fiction in ukraine. this is the moment that a comedian who plays the president in a tv show found out he was beating the real president by more than ten percentage points. these are just exit polls, but the political establishment here has been shaken. what is your reaction to these exit polls? great! i'm very happy. but this is not the final. you think you will win the second round? we will see, i think so. i spent a day with mr zelenskiy during the election campaign. at the time his grasp of politics was weaker than hi

in the uk, the former opposition labour mp gisela stuart, a key figure in the pro—brexit vote leave campaigne for the group breaking electoral spending rules. the organisation dropped its appeal against a fine after it was found to have exceeded spending limits during the referendum. the trial of vietnamese doan thi huong, one of two women charged with murdering the estranged half—brother of north korea's leader, is due to resume shortly. malaysia's attorney—general rejected vietnam's request to free her. huong and an indonesian woman were charged with killing kim jong—nam by smearing his face with poison at kuala lumpur airport in february 2017. liverpool have returned to the top of the english premier league after a dramatic late goal against tottenham hotspur. the two sides had been drawing at anfield until the closing minutes, when an own—goal gave them a dramatic win. we will have much more reaction to that game coming up on sport today in half an hour's time. here in the uk, we are expecting another eventful week regarding brexit. 0ur political correspondent iain watson has been tellin

. —— gisela stuart.ave campaign is coming back together and is endorsing this is the definitive form of brexit. the dup are privately saying they are happy with the government position, according to some i am speaking to but it remains to be seen whether they will move first move along with everybody else, but when they know that this will pass. they are under political pressure from the business community as well, in northern ireland, when henry talks about dominoes, would one of the fact that pushes it over be the prime minister saying, i will 90, be the prime minister saying, i will go, and have nothing to do with the best bits of the process. —— next bit of the process. and in the conservative party, people are very worried that theresa may is toxic, that everything she does collapses, and very worried that if she stays for months, four years, then she could cause the conservative party to completely collapse. very worried that if she stays, they could be out of power for a generation. jeremy corbyn