🔴 Yesterday's @Channel4News Dispatches shows how MI5 refused to investigate Russian donations even when Sergei Cristo asked them to…
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@Channel4News As @C4Dispatches makes clear, the Kremlin managed to infiltrate the Tory Party at its highest levels via the creation of the Conservative Friends of Russia, a lobbying group engineered to act against the Uk national interests. No one stopped them. Why?
In 2018, Russian officers attacked former double agent Colonel Skripal and his daughter, on British territory, using a nerve agent manufactured in Russia.
They knew they could count on a weak reaction from a Tory gov compromised by its Russian links.
@C4Dispatches Even in 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea, preparing the ground for the ongoing war against Ukraine, the Uk gov response was 'inadequate'.
Why?
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'The [Russia] report says in terms that Russia was trying to influence British politics and that the Government had been laggardly in reacting to that possibility."
Why was the report delayed? Why its findings not taken seriously?
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🚨NEW: Report from @JointCtteNSS warns the UK is facing "high risk of catastrophic ransomware attack" from foreign actors, like Russia, China & North Korea.
This comes a week after UK govt finally admitted to Russian interference in British politics. 🧵/1
2/The report states that @ukhomeoffice is not fit or prepared to see off these attacks from foreign actors.
It adds that"majority of ransomware attacks against the UK are from Russian-speaking perpetrators but this is not a straightforward state threat." committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…
3/Last week, the Foreign Office finally admitted to Russian interference in British politics.
It said Russian Intelligence Services targeted high-profile individuals in UK inc MPs & journalists through cyber operations. gov.uk/government/new…
"Ukraine targeted Alexander Lebedev as part of a wave of sanctions against individuals supportive of Russia’s war, placing greater scrutiny on the oligarch’s links to the UK government". @pcaruanagalizia@tortoise#RussiaReport
Boris Johnson gave Lebedev’s son Evgeny, a close friend, a life peerage despite security warnings from MI5. "The Cabinet Office has told parliament that “Lord Lebedev is a man of good standing.” Lord Lebedev has said that he has “no links to the Kremlin".
🔴 The Cabinet Office could take unprecedented action to prevent Boris Johnson’s unredacted diaries and WhatsApp messages from being handed over to the official Covid inquiry
We are so convinced of the need for transparency and accountability in the handling of official business that in March 2022 we went to court to challenge the government's use of disappearing #WhatsApp & text messages.
In July 2022, we requested a copy of the WhatsApp messages sent by No 10 staff shared with Sue Gray for her report on the Partygate when Boris Johnson was PM.
Here is the Cabinet Office's reply
🚨🚨🚨 NHS data breach: NHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so. theguardian.com/society/2023/m…
An astounding investigation by @shanti_das@ObserverUK has revealed how a covert tracking tool in the websites of 20 NHS trusts has for years collected browsing information and shared it with Meta, in a major breach of NHS patients'privacy.
What data have been compromised?
granular details of
✔️ pages viewed
✔️buttons clicked
✔️keywords
Revealed
✔️user's IP address, a piece of info that can identify an individual or household
✔️ details of Facebook accounts
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