Johnson compared allegations of the influence of Russian on theUK referendum with the Bermuda Triangle myth
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared the allegations that Russia in 2016 could have influenced the outcome of the Brexit referendum with the myth of the existence of the Bermuda Triangle. He made such a comparison on Friday night during the pre-election debate on the television broadcast of the BBC Broadcasting Corporation.
“Excuse me, but all this (theories that the conservative government deliberately delays the publication of a report on Russian-attributed interference in British democracy) is nonsense like the Bermuda Triangle. The same nonsense as the assumption that the results of the referendum, in which 17.4 million people voted to leave the EU, were somehow falsified, distorted, wrong or unfair, ”Johnson said.“ I am convinced that the people of our country have voted to leave the EU and there is already three and a half ode.
The head of the British government added that he was not aware of the existence of "any evidence of Russia's interference in any kind of vote" held in the United Kingdom. According to him, there are no facts that could indicate this in the report prepared by the inter-party committee of the British Parliament on the activities of intelligence and security services. According to British media, an as-yet-unpublished document, which has been worked on for a year and a half, is devoted to the threats that Moscow may allegedly pose to British democracy.
The British opposition and the former Prosecutor General of England and Wales, the former Attorney General of England and Wales, Dominic Greve, who heads the parliamentary committee that prepared the report, accuse Johnson of deliberately postponing the publication of the document. Johnson indicated that he “did not see any need to change the time of its publication” and expedite the standard procedure for approving such documents by the Prime Minister’s Office, which can take several weeks. In connection with the dissolution of parliament during the election campaign before the early parliamentary elections scheduled for December 12, the report can now be published only after updating the composition of the House of Commons.
Johnson has stated several times that there is no evidence of Russian interference in the British election. Earlier, his predecessor Theresa May, who headed the country's government from July 2016 to July 2019, repeatedly spoke about this.
The Russian Federation has consistently stated that it is not trying to interfere in political processes in other countries
“Excuse me, but all this (theories that the conservative government deliberately delays the publication of a report on Russian-attributed interference in British democracy) is nonsense like the Bermuda Triangle. The same nonsense as the assumption that the results of the referendum, in which 17.4 million people voted to leave the EU, were somehow falsified, distorted, wrong or unfair, ”Johnson said.“ I am convinced that the people of our country have voted to leave the EU and there is already three and a half ode.
The head of the British government added that he was not aware of the existence of "any evidence of Russia's interference in any kind of vote" held in the United Kingdom. According to him, there are no facts that could indicate this in the report prepared by the inter-party committee of the British Parliament on the activities of intelligence and security services. According to British media, an as-yet-unpublished document, which has been worked on for a year and a half, is devoted to the threats that Moscow may allegedly pose to British democracy.
The British opposition and the former Prosecutor General of England and Wales, the former Attorney General of England and Wales, Dominic Greve, who heads the parliamentary committee that prepared the report, accuse Johnson of deliberately postponing the publication of the document. Johnson indicated that he “did not see any need to change the time of its publication” and expedite the standard procedure for approving such documents by the Prime Minister’s Office, which can take several weeks. In connection with the dissolution of parliament during the election campaign before the early parliamentary elections scheduled for December 12, the report can now be published only after updating the composition of the House of Commons.
Johnson has stated several times that there is no evidence of Russian interference in the British election. Earlier, his predecessor Theresa May, who headed the country's government from July 2016 to July 2019, repeatedly spoke about this.
The Russian Federation has consistently stated that it is not trying to interfere in political processes in other countries
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