Lab Dep Lder Tom Watson says "As Home Secretary Theresa May 'declined' a request from security services to investigate Russian influence ahead of the Brexit referendum + Russian agents may still be actively undermining political networks in the UK mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Theresa May as Home sec set up the National Crime Agency (rivalling SFO) destabilizing fight against moneylaundering and Russian cyberattacks in 2015. Agency was in such dissarray it lost 7 out 17 leaders in its first two years dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…
In the midst of this in early 2016 a Foreign Office official tells the National Crime Agency to NOT investigate Arron Banks mysterious Russian millions AND NOT investigate potential Russian interference in Brexit telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/2…
Theresa May as Home Secretary crippled UK security services so badly they took their eyes off ball and Russians/Far Right attacked our democracy and got an unlikely Brexit win. It succinctly explains May's refusal to redo the referendum or investigate it.
(April 2016) "A firm co-owned by political strategist, Sir Lynton Crosby, allegedly accepted £45,000 (US$ 64,818) to work for a member of a Russian crime gang implicated in the death of anti-corruption whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, BuzzFeed said." occrp.org/en/daily/5145-…
(April 16) "Former UK spy Andrew Fulton working as a private investigator for Russian crime gang boss Andrey Pavlov, the gang at heart of Bill Browder's Magnitsky allegations which the NCA is told to ignore" (Russia has insiders in the FCO or in Tories?) thedailybeast.com/former-top-uk-…
