Rory Stewart

I've watched the whole speech.

It's not as you would expect.

What he actually says is, I'm very much on Ukraine's side.

I'm very much against Russia's invasion of Crimea.

I very much believe in the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine, but freedom of speech.

And, you know, it's very unfortunate that this country that I support is shutting down this media organization and we need to allow freedom of speech to happen in this country.

For which he gets money.

And the man who gives the money then has a meeting with Putin the following day.

And we have to be very careful on what we're suggesting here.

But it might be worth asking some questions about some other people

from Nathan Gill's party, who were also making speeches in the European Parliament in favor of the same pro-Russian media organization, served on the board of the same pro-Russian media organization, who absolutely denied that they took any payment

from Russia to do this, but it's pretty peculiar that they're all making speeches in favour of it, serving on the board of it, turning up to meetings with it.

That's worth looking into.

Clearly, what we need to ask is, is there a bigger systemic problem here?

Oleg Voloshin, and actually a man called Janusz, who was the Polish agent in all of this.

A lot of this is coming from their debriefing, Janusz's debriefing by Polish intelligence, and in particular his WhatsApps.

And they were connected to many, many members of parliament and members of European parliament all the way across Europe.

So far, only one of them has been prosecuted.

Now, we're not going to get into legal problems by accusing individuals by name or even implying anything by name, but there is a much bigger investigation that needs to happen.

Is it actually plausible that there was only one involved?