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Reform MP refuses to say whether Farage should produce evidence for Russian hack claim

The Guardian · May 25, 2026, 10:52 AM

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Danny Kruger says matter is ‘private’, after party leader claimed hack was behind Guardian story about £5m gift. A senior Reform UK figure has refused to call on the party’s leader, Nigel Farage, to hand evidence to the UK’s security services to support his claim he was hacked by Russian agents.Farage has come under mounting pressure to substantiate the claim that a state-sponsored Russian hack was behind the disclosure published by the Guardian last month of a £5m gift he had received from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. Labour and the Conservatives have both stressed the threat to national security posed by the Russian state. Continue reading...

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