Russian Interference in UK Politics

The right hon. Gentleman referred to this interference as having taken place over the last decade...

As I said earlier, I only have 15 minutes in which to contribute to the debate. Although I agree ...

I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on leading this debate. Does he agree that part of the re...

As the hon. Gentleman probably expects, I will discuss Facebook shortly, including some negative ...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a brilliant point, but has he noticed that the American nation...

That is a very good point, which I will come back to. The Minister now has advance notice that he...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing the debate. We are not talking just about a few T...

I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. I do not know whether she has, but I have engaged in exchan...

I think the Americans looked at 47 accounts, which were all provided to the Mueller inquiry by in...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. That is another aspect of this issue that...

I agree with the right hon. Gentleman, and I ask him to emphasise the point about the resources t...

My short answer is, no, I do not think it is. Clearly, that needs to be acted on. It is not just ...

Until we get a change in mindset among these bodies, additional resources will not have the neces...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that. Yes, this debate is partly about giving them the will ...

Order. As Mr Speaker said, there are a number of colleagues wishing to contribute to this debate ...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake), and I...

That is how it makes money.

My hon. Friend is exactly right. It must be able to understand how to target users with informati...

Facebook’s last quarterly profits were nearly $4 billion. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it c...

I absolutely agree. I noticed on a recent investor call that Mark Zuckerberg warned Facebook inve...

Sadly, my hon. Friend was not at this week’s Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, w...

Absolutely. It must be a major priority. We have to realise that Russia is engaged in a multi-lay...

I grew up in cold war Germany. As I have said, these things have been going for decades. When our...

Absolutely. People must see it as a real threat.

It is not enough for the tech companies ju...

It gives me enormous pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins)...

We are coming up to Christmas, one of the great feasts of the Christian year that marks the birth...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am about to deal with the evidence, but of course I will give way.

Did not the head of the Federal Security Service say only this week that it sees itself as the sp...

I am not seeking to defend the Putin regime. There is much in Russia that is not perfect. I was a...

I am familiar with the study that my hon. Friend is referring to, but I would just say that it is...

I am grateful to the Chairman of the Select Committee, and of course we must keep a sense of prop...

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I will not give way; I have got to finish now. The paranoid tendency to see a red under every bed...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not give way to the hon. Lady. Russia is that excuse today. Perhaps the reality is tha...

There has always been, on the left of British politics, a group of useful idiots for authoritaria...

The hon. Gentleman is being generous in giving way. I really believe it is important to be aware ...

Order. When the hon. Lady makes an intervention, she needs to be brief, because there is a lot of...

Yes, absolutely. There is an idea that there was a fantastic, miraculous transformation in 1989-9...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) on securing this d...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am very reluctant to take up extra time, but I will briefly give way.

The hon. Gentleman clearly does not understand that Russia, all the way through, has a full-spect...

I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman, but the fact is that today’s Russia is a shadow...

There is one important difference: although Russia’s conventional weaponry has been somewhat holl...

I absolutely concur what my hon. Friend says—I do not want to diminish it at all—but we need to k...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) on securing this i...

Order. Due to the large number of interventions that colleagues have taken, which always has impl...

In the light of what you have said, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will not take any interventions.

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I said that I would not give way, and I am afraid that I will not out of consideration for others...

I admire the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) and he said some good things, but u...

I concur with many of the speeches we have heard today. I believe this is a major threat to our d...

It is unfortunate that the Chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Commi...

I should put on record that I have been doing some academic research on Russian conventional and ...

I thank the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) for raising this issue to...

This has been a fascinating debate and this is an opportune time for it; I thank the right hon. M...

The hon. Gentleman has referred to the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs inquiry. He will also ...

As always, the hon. Gentleman has a fine recollection of the facts and makes an excellent point.<...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) on securing this i...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way, because of the lack of time.

That takes us to the heart of the reform ...

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I will not give way.

There is now a motive, a means and a method for Russia to intervene in...

I am grateful for this opportunity to speak today, and I thank the right hon. Member for Carshalt...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, because there is an interesting divergence between ...

We have seen no evidence of interference that has successfully affected democratic outcomes in th...

What would success be?

In a political process, success would potentially involve changing the result of that political p...

Part of the reason we are finding it so difficult to establish the impact is the lack of informat...

Absolutely, and I will come on to express that in some pretty firm terms later in my speech. The ...

Aside from the evidence that has been published out of the American inquiry, do the Government ha...

As several Members pointed out in the debate, there is already evidence of activity in the public...

I, too, question the criteria for success, because there is evidence of success in that it is pro...

I will come on to that important point in relation to the cyber-attacks.

As the Prime Minis...

If there was no evidence of successful intervention, was there evidence of unsuccessful intervent...

Some evidence has already been declared, such as Facebook’s declaration that there had been some ...

I thank the Minister for his generosity in giving way. On that productive relationship and cultur...

Of course we support the British Council. The hon. Gentleman made a good speech, but I felt sligh...

I did not want to intervene again, but I feel obliged to do so. The Minister refers to a former M...

It is wholly inappropriate to appear on RT, and I certainly would not do so myself, but the SNP n...

I thank the Minister for his tough words about the social media companies, but we also need to en...