UK taking election interference threats “very seriously”

The UK is taking threats of foreign interference  elections expected later this year “very seriously”, the defence minister said Sunday, after a warning from a counter-terrorism official. “Obviously, that’s something that we take very seriously,” Shapps told the Sky News channel. Counter-terrorism bodies and other institutions would “be  looking very carefully at that”, he said.  […]

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