Remainer Twitter in meltdown over BBC Arron Banks interview

They are angry he's been given a 'platform'

Arron Banks is being investigated by the National Crime Agency. The Electoral Commission referred the case, about potential spending offences during the 2016 referendum campaign on EU membership, to the agency. It suspected Banks was not the "true source" of loans to the campaign and the money had come "from impermissible sources" - noting several meetings with senior Russian officials about gold mining. [caption id="attachment_207171" align="alignnone" width="1429"] (Credit: BBC)[/caption] Banks, who calls himself a 'bad boy of Brexit,' has been the focus of intense speculation about the legality of anti-EU campaigning and the Brexit vote as whole. Vote Leave, the designated campaign during the referendum, has been proven to break spending rules. Reporting for The Observer, Carole Cadwalladr is drawing connections between Banks, Russia and election manipulation by big data companies like Cambridge Analytica. She, and many others, said the BBC should not be giving Banks a 'platform' by interviewing him. https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1059033189904199680 https://twitter.com/Gian_TCatt/status/1059155434588827649 https://twitter.com/lunar_lazarus/status/1059154566422380544 https://twitter.com/Scout342/status/1059147307189522432 https://twitter.com/danr1980/status/1059165493628751872 https://twitter.com/Le_Saboteur_/status/1059134662101078016 https://twitter.com/timolarch/status/1059144430320541697 https://twitter.com/t0nyyates/status/1059142473908391936 https://twitter.com/sharpeleven/status/1059133435187486721 https://twitter.com/cawleym1/status/1059116979678859265 https://twitter.com/EhhAveMaria/status/1059041271677939712 https://twitter.com/RJohnDavis/status/1059122962115239939 Rob Burley, editor of the BBC's live political programming, defended the interview - as he regularly does to one side of the divide or the other, depending on who's on. https://twitter.com/RobBurl/status/1059034667867951105 https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1059091602025660417