Rory Stewart

Somebody needs to, I would imagine if you were investigating this, look at the other people who are making speeches at the same time and check whether this was genuinely their views

Or is it a bit odd that they were making almost identical speeches to Nathan Gill on the same issue, serving on the same boards, going to the same meetings?

We need to look at people across the system who had contact with these people.

Again, very much Nigel Farage will say in his defense, I'm sure, that the fact that he had a photograph with Nadia Brody, who then pops up in the same photographs because she's the partner of Oleg Voloshin, or that Marchewski, who does The Voice of Europe and is closed down by the Czechs,

isn't indirectly connected, well, fine.

May all be enormous coincidence.

They may just have been foolish.

They may have been caught with the wrong photograph in the same way that you and I often get photographs of people.

But there's clearly a much, much bigger system going on here.

And I'm a bit suspicious about the fact that only Nathan Gill in the whole of Europe has so far been prosecuted.

But there's the bigger issue of corruption in general.

I mean, we've talked about this before.

We've talked about the way that Azerbaijan basically corrupted a whole series of British and European members of parliament through its caviar diplomacy,

We've talked about the way that European parliamentarians were found with bags of cash, almost certainly from a Middle Eastern state, trying to bribe them to do stuff.

And I think we haven't begun to think about the ways in which the American private sector

can begin to corrupt our members of parliament.

What do I mean by corrupt?

What I mean is it'd be much more difficult to catch them.

In a sense, actually, the Russians and the Gulf states who are handing over cash are being naive.

They're doing it in a too obvious way.