Successive governments failed to tackle threats to British democracy after a long-awaited report into Russian interference found the UK is considered one of Moscow's "top Western intelligence targets".
The Russia report has shown there were attempts to influence the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 but the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said the government "actively avoided" investigating interference in the Brexit referendum in 2016.
ISC member and Labour MP Kevan Jones said no evidence of meddling in that vote was found because “no one” in government “sought to look or ask the question that needed to be asked”.
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