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Labour’s deputy leader has said Britain is on the frontier of a “new cold war” that Russia is winning and discussed a claim that Theresa May may have blocked an intelligence services investigation into the Russian dealings of Arron Banks, the businessman behind the Leave.EU campaign.

Tom Watson made the remarks at an Observer event at the Labour conference in Liverpool on Sunday where he accused the government of being willfully blind to Russia’s attack on British democracy.

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