Intelligence and Security Committee Russia report

[1][2] The committee completed the report in March 2019 and it was published in July 2020, after claims were made that delays to its publication were due to government machinations.

[5] The report thereafter went through a process of redaction by intelligence and security agencies and was sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 17 October 2019.

[8] A number of legal actions were begun to try to force the government to publish the report: one brought by the widow of the murdered Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, and another by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

[16] Since the government had not authorised any investigation into the matter, the committee found no evidence that Russian interference had affected the Brexit referendum.

[17] However, the report did discover some evidence of co-ordinated interference in online narratives following the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in efforts to spread uncertainty over the result.