Andy Burnham has said Russia did interfere with the Brexit referendum and warned that similar activities were taking place in France and Germany.
The prime minister told The Rest is Politics podcast that upon arriving in No 10, he had asked about possible Russian interference in the 2016 vote, adding: “I’ve had the clear answer that, yes, there was.”
“I think we’ve been too much on the back foot on that actually and we haven’t informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas,” he added.
If Russia didn’t want to be blamed, they could stop; but their whole government rests on the narrative that “sure we are bad, but everyone else is bad”.
What? I don’t think Russia cares much if it’s blamed or not. I’m saying that the US (and the UK) have plenty of their own serious problems that don’t require “ze Russians” to explain. We’ve been building our own domestic spin machines forever.