- Former Permanent Secretary Philip Rycroft will assess finance and bribery rules and how to reduce risk of foreign interference
- Builds on new rules set out in Elections Strategy to guard against foreign political interference
Gill was jailed in November, after admitting to taking bribes for pro-Russian interviews and speeches when he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Announcing the review, Communities Secretary Steve Reed said the government must “learn the lessons” from the case so “this can never happen again”.
The review will be led by former senior civil servant Philip Rycroft and will report back in March.
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No word on US/Israeli influence of course
Good. Clearly there’s foreign interference in our politics, and we need to uncover it and decide what we’re going to do about it.
There was that report into russian interference a while back, but:
- most of it was redacted
- it wasn’t allowed to look into foreign interference in Brexit, one of the biggest political events in the 21st century
- only looked into interference from one country
- happened years ago, and our political landscape has changed massively since then
Was that while the other side was in power? Might have had a muted reception when it was delivered.
Yes, it was Boris Johnson who buried the report as much as possible.
are we finally ready to start doing this? cf. Estonia.
we need to a wave of this to sweep over Europe.
