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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kevin Rawlinson

Reform MP refuses to say whether Farage should produce evidence for Russian hack claim

Danny Kruger close-up speaking
Kruger (pictured) also said he was ‘not going to judge people’ for social media posts, after lewd comments by Robert Kenyon emerged. Photograph: Corey Rudy/Reuters

A senior Reform UK figure has refused to call on the party’s leader, Nigel Farage, to hand evidence to the UK’s security services to support his claim he was hacked by Russian agents.

Farage has come under mounting pressure to substantiate the claim that a state-sponsored Russian hack was behind the disclosure published by the Guardian last month of a £5m gift he had received from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. Labour and the Conservatives have both stressed the threat to national security posed by the Russian state.

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