Originally Posted by Angua

The leaflet was a legal requirement of the Referendum spelling out both sides of the argument as per Venice Commission rules.

Sadly, whilst the UK government clearly embraced many of the principles of the Venice Commission code, these rules, in line with the advisory status of the referendum, aren’t legally binding, so the government is unfortunately at liberty to choose to ignore another highly relevant Venice Commission rule:

Which calls into question the whole legality of the referendum, let alone blithely carrying on regardless.

This is more for the benefit of other FMs.