Rush hour

So yesterday the UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced that he was informed that there was Russian interference in the UK's disastrous 2016 Brexit referendum - where just a sliver over half of the votes were in favour of the UK leaving the European Union. In 2019, a report was commissioned to investigate Russian interference in UK politics. When the investigation was concluded, the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson basically sat on the report. At that point there was an election looming and I suspect he was worried that whatever the report revealed would be detrimental to his election hopes. Eventually a heavily redacted version was released that, according to Wikipedia, stated there was substantial evidence to suggest Russia had significantly interfered with UK politics and the UK was slow/unwilling/unable to react to it. Side note: Boris Johnson is close friends with a guy called Evgeny Lebedev, the son of a former high-ranking KGB agent. Close enough that, when he was Prime…