No 10 blocks Russia EU referendum report until after election

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4. Russian Tory donors named in secret report

Nine Russian business people who gave money to the Conservative Party are named in a secret intelligence report on the threats posed to UK democracy which was suppressed last week by Downing Street.

Oligarchs and other wealthy Tory donors were included in the report on illicit Russian activities in Britain by the cross-party intelligence and security select committee (ISC), whose publication was blocked by No 10.

Some Russian donors are personally close to the prime minister. Alexander Temerko, who has worked for the Kremlin’s defence ministry and has spoken warmly about his “friend” Boris Johnson, has gifted more than £1.2m to the Conservatives over the past seven years.

MPs on the ISC, which conducted an 18-month inquiry, were also briefed on Alexander Lebedev, the former KGB spy in London whom the last Labour government allowed to buy the London Evening Standard newspaper.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-tory-donors-named-in-secret-report-z98nqpkx0

Currently a Sunday Times exclusive (though it didn't frontpage it for some reason ...), but it will no doubt be picked up by other media over the next day or so.