and i also welcome the work of the institute for statecraft.ree with me though that we need to double down on this work? because the reality is that the dcms select committee has shown the danger to our democracy, to our very way of life from russian disinformation. back to the lords now, where the government came under pressure to call another referendum before brittany the european union. —— exiting. a so—called people's vote. but the idea of another vote was firmly resisted by a brexit minister. my lords, the government has been clear that we will not hold a second referendum. the clear majority of the electorate voted to leave the european union and the people's vote was in 2016. we must respect the will of the british people and the democratic process, which delivered this result. my lords, of course bearing in mind that vote would have no direct connection to the previous recommended as a separate matter entirely. would not the minister now undertake to make sure that a government led by either the present incumbent or whoever succeeds he

where she compares the channel to isis we've contacted both the integrity initiative and the institute for statecraft over the payments but so far there's been no comment while the u.k. foreign office which has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the program had this to say the state craft an independent charity was hired several weeks ago and numerous documents were published a number of news channels the russian state media campaigns object of his clear this is just another example of russian just information intended to confuse audiences and discredit an organization which is working independently to talk of the threat of descent from asia the integrity initiative has been caught three tweeting stories that explore conspiracy theories about the u.k. opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn despite receiving funding from the foreign office some including rich have question the veracity of some of the leaked documents statements from the british government that have been sent to r.t. in response to repeated. it's about integrity and this had to have appeared to have struck a nerve although that's

the what's interesting is a story is also broken this week in britain about the so-called institute for statecraft and its front organization the integrity initiative or of the other way round based in an annex. textile mill in scotland and they got two million pounds from the u.s. and british governments to basically spread around say russian propaganda but some of the tweets they've been tweeting from this troll factory are actually attacking jeremy corbin the leader of the labor party as a russian stooge now when you've got the governments of the u.k. spending taxpayers' money two million pounds of taxpayers' money on this woman as action alone entirely in psychological warfare against russia it looks like then the idea that journalists are going around to look for a russian connection to what seemed to be spontaneous protests in france is not that surprising although the question is whether they are spontaneous is always in people's minds or maybe it's not the russians who operate who orchestrated them if anybody is but i think this whole affair stinks really we're beginning to realize how bad

labor and jeremy call but this is all about is a rather cryptically named group called the institute for statecraft which apparently got money from the foreign and commonwealth office the f.c.s. of state money tax and minister defense british army major lithuanian in moody us state department in order to try to counter the russian propaganda and anybody who seems to be. russia. jeremy cole been potentially huge attack english all the time you know not according to this well actually this think tank is quote supposed to counter russian online propaganda by forming clusters of friendly journalists and then making the point so save your own firing line here is how much money if you go from the institute for state where the foreign office and the taxpayer. money comes from putin i thought you knew that it goes wrong the red phone in my in my office visit but the real thrust of the story is the attack the canary but this thing we do not know that this is for me the underlying actual story here is not that this is happening because of. skiving on the main the u.k. turning against friendly countries like