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The Guardian - UK
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Michael Savage and Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Starmer: Russians hide cash in ‘soft touch’ UK

Eaton Square, Belgravia, Central London
Many properties, including some of the most expensive homes in the country, are registered to companies in secretive offshore trusts. Photograph: Peter Lane/Alamy

The “creeping tendrils of the Kremlin” have been allowed to wrap themselves around the UK and turn London into a global money laundering capital, Keir Starmer has said, as he accused successive Conservative governments of failing to act on the threat.

In an excoriating attack on the government’s stance on Russian influence within Britain, the Labour leader said that the UK needed to get “our own house in order” as it unites with the west to confront Vladimir Putin.

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