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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Lib Dems call for inquiry into hostile foreign state interference to include US

Donald Trump
The US national security strategy, set out this month, said that Washington should ‘cultivate resistance’ in Europe. Photograph: ABACA/Shutterstock

An inquiry into interference by hostile foreign states in the UK should be extended to cover the actions of Donald Trump’s US, the Liberal Democrats have said.

In a letter to the communities secretary, Steve Reed, whose department is leading on the independent review, the Lib Dems said the US government’s explicit support for far-right nationalist parties in Europe amounted to outside interference.

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