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The British Government has blocked the publication of a report, prepared by the Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security (ISC), on Russia's interference in the 2016 European Union referendum and in the 2017 elections. The report, of 50 pages, was going to be made public on Monday, a day before the dissolution of Parliament, but Downing Street has decided to postpone its dissemination until after the December 12 elections.

"If the prime minister has a reason why he does not want to see the report published, he must let it know as soon as possible," said Dominic Grieve, former attorney general and chairman of the parliamentary committee to which he declared, among others, the former spy of the MI6 Christopher Steele (author of the 'Russiagate' dossier on Donald Trump's connections with Moscow).

"This report is very relevant to the public because we all know - and it is something already widely accepted - that Russia has tried to interfere in the democratic processes of other countries in the past," added the deputy, expelled from the Conservative Party on September 3 for voting please the extension of Brexit.

"It is very demoralizing for us to have dedicated months to this work and see that in the end there is no response," said Grieve, who was attorney general with David Cameron between 2010 and 2014 and was considered one of the most relevant voices of the moderate sector of the 'tories'. After 22 years in the Conservative Party, he plans to appear as an independent candidate 12-D for his constituency of Beaconsfield.

Despite the imminent dissolution of Parliament, Grieve has promised that he will exhaust all legal weapons to force Boris Johnson to publish the report of the ISC, which was sent to the Government on October 17 and that tries to delve into the flow of Russian money in the British politics, and mainly in the Conservative Party.

The report also analyzes the role that the current adviser and strategist of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, who spent three years in Russia (between 1994 and 1997) after graduating in History from Oxford, has been able to play . Cummings speaks Russian fluently, established contacts with entrepreneurs during that time and even participated in the creation of a failed airline.

Emily Thornberry, Foreign spokesman for the Labor Party, has sent a letter to the head of the 'Foreign Office', Dominic Raab, conveying his "serious concern" for the testimony of a senior official (whose name remains secret) that could allegedly link to Cummings with the flow of Russian money towards the 'tories', through the group known as Conservative Friends of Russia, which worked during the first half this decade.

Cummings was co-founder of the 'Vote Leave' campaign, led by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, in an electoral investigation for having exceeded the maximum electoral expenditure limit of 7 million pounds (8 million euros). The strategist of Johnson, architect of the motto "Recover the control", gave a great relevance to the campaign in the networks, where the interference of Russian 'trolls' was public and notorious.

The ISC report dedicates a portion of its contents to examining Russia's possible role in the 2016 EU referendum campaign, not only through the 'Vote Leave' campaign but also through Leave.eu, digida by the millionaire Arron Banks, linked with the former leader of the UKIP and current head of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage. As 'The Observer' has revealed, Banks held up to 11 meetings with Russian diplomats and businessmen during the campaign, including four with the Russian ambassador to London, Alexander Yakovenko.

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