UK PM Burnham says Russia interfered in 2016 Brexit vote– www.channelnewsasia.com
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Burnham’s comments mark a departure from those of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who campaigned to leave the EU, and said in 2020 there was no evidence of Russian interference in the referendum.
Britons voted 52 per cent to 48 per cent to leave the EU in 2016, plunging the country into its biggest political crisis since World War II.
Burnham said voters in European democracies needed to be better informed about efforts to disrupt their politics.
“I mean, these things are important now to put clearly on the record, and I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia,” he said.
Britain’s government failed to establish whether Russia meddled in the 2016 referendum on membership of the EU, according to a report by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee in 2020.
The report also found that Russia had sought to influence Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum, in which voters rejected independence.
Burnham last month said he could campaign to take Britain back into the EU at the next general election, reopening the country’s divisive debate on its relationship with the continent.
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