Labour urges full probe into alleged Russia role in Brexit referendum
A top member of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party has urged the government to clarify what it has done to investigate claims about Russia’s alleged interference in the June 2016 referendum in which Britons decided for their country to leave the European Union.
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said Monday that the Conservative-led government was expected to confirm if the National Crime Agency (NCA) was looking into alleged Russian plot in the Brexit vote.
Watson said if the NCA was not properly investigating the case, the government should allow a full public inquiry, like what has been launched in the United States against Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.
“And if they’re not, I think there does need to be an adequately resourced public inquiry so that people know the facts of the referendum,” he said, adding, “They need to know whether that referendum was stolen or not.”
For the past months, US special counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating possible links between President Donald Trump’s election campaign and Russia. Some say Britain also needs a Mueller-style investigation to uncover the truth about Brexit vote in which the Leave campaign won with a narrow majority.
There have been repeated calls from politicians and activists for a government-led investigation into alleged Russian links to Leave.EU campaign and its leader Arron Banks.
Banks, a Bristol businessman, has lashed out at those calls, while describing the accusations against him as fake news fabricated by certain media outlets.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport issued a report last month in which it demanded the government to urgently confirm what the intelligence services were doing in response to reports in the media of Russian interference. The department also urged the police to investigate potential links between Banks and Moscow.
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