In 2018, Crick’s investigations on behalf of Channel 4 into violations of electoral law in the South Thanet constituency during the 2017 General Election resulted in the conviction of the Conservative Party regional organiser in 2019 of serious breaches of illegal spending. One consequence of his investigations has been a tightening of electoral law to prevent local candidates from using profiles of national figures in their literature. The costs of national figures supporting local candidates must be declared within local party expenditure accounts; these will be very closely scrutinised during the 2019 general election.