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"There has however been speculation that this report was going to reveal either that Russia had interfered in or sought to influence the referendum, but this committee's view it's worse than that..."

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"the report reveals that no one in govt knew if Russia interfered in or sought to influence the EU ref because they did not want to know. The UK govt has actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered...

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"..we are told that they have not seen any evidence, but that is irrelevant if they haven't actually looked for it"

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@LBC @mrjamesob It's blown up in their faces, hasn't it?

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@Daily_Express @LBC @mrjamesob "Had the relevant parts of Intelligence Community conducted a similar threat assessment prior to the referendum, it is inconceivable that they would not have reached same conclusion as to Russian intent, which might then have led them to take action to protect the process”

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"The report reveals that no one in government knew if Russia interfered in or sought to influence the [Brexit] referendum because they did not want to know"

Stewart Hosie MP says govt "actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered"

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"Successive governments have welcomed Russian oligarchs and their money with open arms"

Kevan Jones MP says Russian influence in the UK "is the new normal" and illicit finance is "recycled through the London laundromat"

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"Members of the House of Lords have business interests linked to Russia or work directly for major Russian companies linked to the Russian state”

Stewart Hosie MP says House of Lords' links to Russia should be "carefully scrutinised"

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@LBC Boris Johnson December 2019: There is no evidence of Russian interference in UK elections

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https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1285518965008142336

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1285511538074357761?s=19

"This is actually a threat to our democracy."

Dominic Grieve says the UK should have investigated whether Russia interfered in the 2016 EU ref, as there were "clear signs" of this happening in other electoral processes "from 2014 onwards"

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https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1285526585722929152?s=19

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1285596301623787520?s=19

'This inquiry was about Russia's threat to UK in its widest sense, of which there is plenty of evidence.'

Dominic Grieve, says he was surprised there had been no investigation into Russian interference in the EU ref

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https://twitter.com/paul__johnson/status/1285681377757798402?s=19

Nov 2017: @MaryCreaghMP asked then PM Theresa May about a @thetimes report that fake Russian Twitter accounts posted 1,000s of messages in an attempt to influence the EU referendum result.

Why did the Tories do nothing?

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@MaryCreaghMP @thetimes @LBC David Lammy 10 Jan 2019: "[Brexit] is a dangerous fantasy that will make every problem it claims to solve worse. It's a campaign won on false promises & lies. Both Vote Leave & LeaveEU broke the law. Russian interference is beyond reasonable doubt"

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"It turns out we were right. We were right to warn of Russian interference, we were right to make parallels with what happened in the US in 2016, and what happened in the UK with Brexit."

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"They point out very bluntly in the report that they recognize that the UK now faces a threat from Russia from within its own borders"

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