Rory Stewart

And they see all these groups as being proto-Brexit groups, so destroying the European Union, pro-Russia groups destroying NATO, pro-Trump groups undermining liberal democracy and the rule of law.

Putin's advantage.

And more MPs need to speak out.

And I'm worried that one of the reasons more MPs aren't speaking out is that they all have a bit of a guilty conscience.

There are far too many all-party parliamentary groups sponsored by foreign governments paying for MPs to go on guided trips, sharing the propaganda of those countries to them.

All this stuff should be stopped.

We should have much, much stricter rules against trips, benefits, lobbying.

Not against this trip.

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