andrea leadsom. presenting a serious threat to british democracy. that moscow had been successful. was seeking to undermine the international order. president putin certainly is not a friend of this country. elections, here, to damage the uk and eu security. and disinformation. advertising. them. accounts. idiots of themselves by taking... in british politics. undermine our democracy. there is an explanation for this paranoia. referendum. abandoning their ideology. needs to find an excuse for why the people are misbehaving. that excuse today. they have to accept the ballot box decision ofjune 2016. accept that, they have to make sure that brexit happens. referendum. systematically abroad in the west. assume that russia was not intervening here in this country. that takes us to the heart of the reform agenda we need to look at. used to great effect. sought to interfere in any process, we look into this seriously. processes. as for the enquiry referred to by damian collins... social media sites in february. is far more they need to do in terms of transparency and cooperation. this is a w

that various figures have spoken out this morning, responding to you it, andrea leadsom was asked ong and she said it was indeed stating the obvious. sovereign governments are always in a position to undertake and then subsequently to make different arrangements, said the will of the people be that they do that. i don't really see that this is getting us anywhere. it is the case in a sovereign parliament that the voters can choose to take a country in a different direction. as well as the point of that being able to reject or send a signal to the government that they want to go in a different direction as andrea leadsom budget, theissue direction as andrea leadsom budget, the issue of how closely aligned to the issue of how closely aligned to the uk is to the eu in the future is also something that people are pouring over this agreement with brussels and trying to work out what it signal. iain duncan smith, the former conservative leader and prominent leave campaigner, gave his response this morning. sounding quite relaxed about it, saying regulatory alignment, the phrase that comes

the leader of the house, andrea leadsom has spoken about what mr gove had to say and as far as she wass. sovereign governments are always in a position to undertake and then subsequently to make different arrangements should the will of the people be that they do that. i don't see this is getting us anywhere. it is the case in a sovereign parliament that the voters can choose to take a country in a different direction. jonathan, trade talks are coming up next. how bruising could this be for britain? bruising was the word iain duncan smith used when he was interviewed on the radio to say it will be very difficult and for all the hard work that it has taken to get to this point, the midnight phone calls, the pre—dawn flight to brussels, the hard wrangling with theresa may's political allies at home, the trade talks will be tricky because the cabinet has yet to agree on what they want the outcome to be. if they can, then it might smooth the passage a little bit more easily, but if they can't, then it will be tricky the hole way through. jonathan blake, thank you very much. foreign secreta

this was the reaction of andrea leadsom, the leader of the house of commons and a prominent leave campaignern she spoke to bbc radio 4 earlier. sovereign governments are always in a position to undertake and then subsequently to make different arrangements, should the will of the people be that they do that. i don't really see that this is getting us anywhere. it is the case in a sovereign parliament that the voters can choose to take a country in a different direction. also speaking to bbc radio 4, the former conservative leader and leave supporter, iain duncan smith, said regulatory alignment did not necessarily mean having the same regulations as the eu. the regulations may be different but the effect is important, this is the key bit. what is the effect of what you do? that is in our interest generally, even after a trade arrangement to ensure that between our major trade partners, there is a sense of alignment. the key here is the next phase from what will happen on the trade discussions? i think this will be the bruising difficult bit but it's the vital bit. let's speak to the conserva