Ex-Nato chief accuses ministers of ‘clumsy’ approach after letter triggering article 50 appeared to threaten defence cooperation
‘Unacceptable’ lack of progress on alternative to EU’s Galileo project after Brexit, says committee.
UK inquiry was warned of Russian infiltration, leaked testimony shows [inc. video, 5 mins]
11/11/2019
Russia's influence reaches deep into the British establishment and successive UK governments have turned a blind eye to it, lawmakers were warned, according to multiple sources familiar with testimony given to a parliamentary inquiry.
THE UK government “actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum”.
A long-awaited report on Russia's activities in the UK has concluded that the British government "took its eye off the ball" and failed to respond to Moscow's threat.
The forecast leaves the UK economy languishing behind sanctions-hit Russia.
The UK is on course to be the world's worst-performing major economy this year, according to updated predictions from the International Monetary Fund - which puts at least part of the blame on higher taxes and interest rates.
National Crime Agency investigating 'theft of data' from Institute for Statecraft.
Former Formula One team boss Gérard Lopez, who gave £400,000 to Conservatives, has been charged after investigation. / A Tory donor who has been described as a friend of Vladimir Putin, and who donated £400,000 to the party before the Brexit referendum, is facing charges of forgery in Luxembourg.
Businessman who has given party more than £1.3m denies he is agent for Kremlin.
Tories accepted £200,000 from Russians days after refusing to publish interference report
21/11/2019
The Conservative Party accepted £200,000 from the wife of a former Russian finance minister under president Putin, just days after refusing to publish a report into Russian interference in UK elections.
One of the UK’s top officials in monitoring economic crime has today warned about the “disturbing” prevalence of Russian money laundering in London, claiming up to half of all money laundered from the country is done through the UK.
Police say 75,000 Moldovans turned out, waving EU flags and chanting pro-European slogans.
Almost every nation at some point believes it’s special and on a mission. They’re all wrong, and the sooner we get over this nonsense, the better.
‘Global Britain’ can only become a reality if Johnson rebuilds his links with European partners.
Millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks eagerly pursued a multibillion-pound gold deal brought to him by a Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin just months before the EU referendum, Channel 4 News can reveal.
Rightly, a central tenet of British foreign policy has long been to abide – and to expect others to abide – by international law.
Spy Agencies And Ministers Failed To Protect Brexit Referendum From Possible Russian Interference, MPs Say
21/07/2020
Tory ministers and intelligence agencies did not do enough to investigate or protect the UK from possible Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum, MPs have said in a long-awaited report.
Some steel exports from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are facing a 25% tariff because of changes to EU rules.
More than 150,000 Russian-language Twitter accounts posted tens of thousands of messages in English urging Britain to leave the European Union in the days before last year’s referendum on the issue, ...
Labour queries why MP used unsecured account for classified government business.
Russian trolls sent thousands of pro-Leave messages on day of Brexit referendum, Twitter data reveals
17/10/2018
An army of Russian trolls sent thousands of messages with the hashtag #ReasonsToLeaveEU on the day of Britain's referendum on membership of the EU, according to new data released by Twitter.
A report by the UK Parliament Intelligence and Security Committee says the government was "slow to recognise the threat" posed by Russian, so did not take action to protect the UK from possible interference in the 2016 EU referendum.
'"The Russia Report" published by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament in July 2020 did not specifically address the Brexit campaign, but it concluded that Russian interference in UK politics is commonplace.'