Day: March 26, 2018

    Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to divide Britain from its allies, according to Britain's defence secretary. Gavin Williamson, who is in Tallinn, Estonia, said the world's patience is wearing thin with Mr Putin and his actions. He said the world is united behind the British, which is a powerful message to the Kremlin. And the Russian government has hit back, saying Britain's accusations over the nerve agent attack on a former spy in Salisbury border on banditry. Mr Williamson said the universal backing for Britain was in itself a defeat for President Putin. The world's patience is rather wearing thin with President Putin and his actions, and the fact that right across the NATO alliance, right across the European Union, nations have stood up in support ...

    Theresa May is leading last-ditch efforts to stop an outrageous EU move to freeze Britain out of Europe’s €10bn Galileo satellite project, as space becomes a new frontier in Brexit negotiations. The British prime minister has been warned that hundreds of millions of pounds of contracts are at stake in the coming months, as Brussels prepares to lock Britain’s space industry out to protect security elements of the satellite programme from being irretrievably compromised after Brexit. Gavin Williamson, defence secretary, was said by allies to have hit the roof when told about the EU’s strict approach to sharing confidential information, even though the UK has offered unconditional security co-operation after Brexit. What is being proposed [by Brussels] is outrageous, ...

    The Cambridge Analytica scandal engulfing the official Brexit campaign reached No 10 on Sunday, as campaigners wrote to Theresa May demanding an investigation into what members of her cabinet and her own staff knew. The letter from the anti-Brexit group Best for Britain came after a whistleblower told the Observer that Vote Leave channelled money through another campaign to a firm linked to the controversial data company Cambridge Analytica in a potential breach of electoral law. The allegations immediately put pressure on the foreign and environment secretaries, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, who were leading members of Vote Leave. May came under pressure herself over the weekend after Downing Street was accused of outing the whistleblower, Shahmir Sanni, as gay ...

    Russian Twitter trolls have been attempting to show that the British public do not believe Vladimir Putin is behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, it has been claimed. The potentially fake accounts, which experts say could be linked to the bot factory in St Petersburg, retweeted a poll by a British user which ended with more than 15,700 votes. Less that two weeks after the former double agent and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury city centre, Twitter user Rachael Swindon asked if people thought Theresa May has supplied enough evidence for us to be able to confidently point the finger of blame towards Russia? 77 per cent voted no, leading the blogger, who is a vocal supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and has more than 57,000 followers, to co...