Farage’s views on Russia likely to be further tested after jailing of Nathan Gill

The discovery of a pro-Russian asset, Nathan Gill , at the heart of a British political party reads like the plot of a John Le Carre novel.

Russia was long known to have been trying to interfere in foreign politics with online bots and cyber disinformation over the last decade.

However, the Nathan Gill case is now a concrete example of a pro-Russian agent enlisting and paying a Brexit-friendly party politician to spread the propaganda of Moscow and against Ukraine in Europe.

In the 1960s, it tended more to be Labour and far-left politicians who were largely the subject of Soviet attempts to plant agents in the west.

In modern times, it is no surprise that the parties Gill represented were Ukip, the Brexit party, and briefly Reform UK .

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