Campaigners have called on the government to open a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics after a Russian-speaking mastermind paid two men to set fire to homes and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer.
Roman Lavrynovych, 22 from Ukraine, and Stanislav Carpiuc, 27 from Romania, were found guilty on Monday at the Old Bailey more than a year after a Toyota Rav4, once owned by the prime minister, was set alight in a street in Kentish Town. Days later, two houses linked to the prime minister, one occupied by his sister-in-law and her family, were set ablaze.
