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The refusal of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to publish a bipartisan Parliamentary report on Russian involvement in the 2016 EU referendum is the latest development in a prolonged Brexit crisis that is eroding the UK's strategic credibility in the world.
'Get Brexit done is the biggest delusion of all' - Michael Heseltine launches scathing attack on Boris Johnson.
MPs call for unlimited fines for electoral law breaches to stem flow of 'dirty money and dodgy data'
19/01/2020
Fines seen by some donors as ‘just the cost of doing business’, says electoral watchdog.
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.
A long-awaited Parliamentary report into alleged Russian interference in UK democracy is yet to be published.
Rachel Maddow reports on a controversy in the UK in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson is blocking the release of a report on Russian interference in the Brexit vote until after the general election scheduled for December.
Boris Johnson nominates Chris Grayling to chair key security committee overseeing Russia report
10/07/2020
First decision for new chair will be on the publication of the long-delayed report into Russian attempts to interfere in UK democracy.
Call to release review of Moscow’s influence now that security committee is finally being set up.
Failure to establish key scrutiny committee is also criticised as ‘unprecedented underhand behaviour’.
Russia report: UK Government ‘actively avoided looking for evidence’ of Kremlin meddling in EU referendum
21/07/2020
Ministers were today accused by Britain’s intelligence watchdog of failing to probe whether Russia sought to interfere in the EU referendum.
Dossier sets out Moscow-linked cyber threats, influence of Russian money and growth of Kremlin ‘enablers’ in UK.
Presented to Parliament pursuant to section 3 of the Justice and Security Act 2013 / Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 21 July 2020
The PM has refused the Russia report’s call to investigate possible interference by Moscow in the 2016 EU referendum.
The long-awaited report into the extent to which Russia has tried to influence UK democracy has been released - here are the key points.
The long-awaited Russia report today refused to rule out Moscow interfering in the EU referendum - and called for a formal assessment. But the government has dismissed the calls out of hand.
The long-awaited Russia report was finally released today - and warns the UK 'took its eye off the ball' of a mounting threat, failing even to look for any interference in Brexit.
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.
Russia report says government was ‘too slow’ to react to threat of interference in Brexit referendum
21/07/2020
The Intelligence and Security Committee report said ministers did not respond adequately to threats of election and referendum tampering from Russia
Russia report: Moscow's disinformation campaign fuelling 'political extremism' and division in UK
21/07/2020
Russian accounts push views on Brexit, terror attacks and race as part of 'culture wars', expert says.
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.
Use of Twitter ‘bots’ and ‘trolls’ evidence of Kremlin attempts to influence vote, parliamentary report finds.
‘I do think this is rehashing a rather stale debate,’ says head of powerful foreign affairs committee – after Russia report found government ignored potential interference in 2016 vote.
Russia report: Boris Johnson rules out inquiry into Brexit vote as report reveals UK failed to protect EU referendum
21/07/2020
Long-awaited intelligence committee report says threat from Moscow was ‘badly underestimated’.