Russia interference report

[WTFH]

It's because the committee itself no longer exists, having been dissolved along with the last Parliament. A new committee has to be selected and voted on by the HoC. Last time it took 6 months.

And this time, with a massive majority, there's no reason to rush it, because there's enough to vote it down.

[DaveB]

And this time, with a massive majority, there's no reason to rush it, because there's enough to vote it down.

The cynical might think that BJ knew he only had to sit on it long enough for the election to be called. Whereupon the committee would be dissolved and he could approve publication sure in the knowledge that nothing would happen for months and the entire thing would be overshadowed by the delivery of Brexit, in whatever form that took.

But I couldn't possibly comment.

[shaunbhoy]

But I couldn't possibly comment.

Best stick to that approach. No point in letting your paranoid hysterical hypothesizing make you look any more dimwitted than necessary.

Not as if you are starting from a position of strength.

[Stevie Wonder Boy]

They are?

I thought it was because the committee that is to publish the report cannot in fact publish it at this time, because it currently has no chairman, the former chair (and traitor) Dominic Grieve having been tossed out of parliament by due democratic process.

Bit quick off the mark, as of 11pm Friday he would be. The irony of moaning about Russian influence. Lol, really is that all you have?

[Eirikur]

Bit quick off the mark, as of 11pm Friday he would be. The irony of moaning about Russian influence. Lol, really is that all you have?

So taking back control means, give Putin control?

[Platypus]

So taking back control means, give Putin control?

You seem to have presumed the findings of the report?

[Zigenare]

You seem to have presumed the findings of the report?

And again he will be handed his arse on a plate.

[darmstadt]

Excerpt from the report on Russian interference