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.”
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