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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Lib dems call for inquiry into hostile foreign state interference to include us - The Untold Story

Donald Trump
The US national security strategy, set out this month, said that Washington should ‘cultivate resistance’ in Europe. Photograph: ABACA/Shutterstock

An inquiry into interference by hostile foreign states in the UK should be extended to cover the actions of Donald Trump’s US, the Liberal Democrats have said.

In a letter to the communities secretary, Steve Reed, whose department is leading on the independent review, the Lib Dems said the US government’s explicit support for far-right nationalist parties in Europe amounted to outside interference.

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