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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

General Election 2024: China and Russia may try to interfere in UK poll - new alert calls for MI5 action

China, Russia, Iran and North Korea may seek to interfere in Britain’s general election, senior MPs and peers warned as they called for last-minute action by MI5 and other security agencies to thwart these states from doing so.

In a letter addressed to Rishi Sunak, Parliament’s Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) stressed that the UK has experienced a “pattern of attempted foreign interference”.

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