{"id":150674,"date":"2020-07-17T22:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/dominic-raab-russians-tried-to-interfere-in-uk-general-election\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:21:02","slug":"dominic-raab-russians-tried-to-interfere-in-uk-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/dominic-raab-russians-tried-to-interfere-in-uk-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Raab: Russians tried to interfere in UK general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian groups \u201csought to interfere\u201d in the U.K.s general election last year, the countrys Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/publications\/written-questions-answers-statements\/written-statement\/Lords\/2020-07-16\/HLWS376\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">written statement<\/a> released Thursday, Raab said \u201con the basis of extensive analysis, the government has concluded that it is almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 general election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked government documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documents in question were \u201csensitive\u201d and related to ongoing trade negotiations between the U.K. and the U.S., the foreign secretary said, adding that a criminal investigation into the affair is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The written statement referred to documents that reached wide notoriety when Jeremy Corbyn, then Labour leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-50572454\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">held them up<\/a> at a press conference during the 2019 election campaign, claiming the U.K.s National Health Service was \u201cfor sale\u201d in trade talks with America.<\/p>\n<p>The documents were traced back to online messaging board Reddit, which in December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.co&lt;a href=https\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/dominic-raab-russians-tried-to-interfere-in-uk-general-election-over-leaked-trade-documents\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication&gt;Read More \u2013 Source&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;_[contf]_[contfnew]_        &lt;img src=\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian groups \u201csought to interfere\u201d in the U.K.s general election last year, the countrys Foreign S..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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