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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn and Steven Morris

Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

Nathan Gill in front of a throng of journalists with outstretched arms.
Reform UK’s former Wales leader Nathan Gill. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Three more British MEPs from Nigel Farage’s bloc are alleged to have “followed the script” given to a colleague who was being bribed by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors, as a police investigation into the affair continues.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill by Oleg Voloshyn when giving interviews to 112 Ukraine, a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019.

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