Will Burnham publish the evidence he refers to? "In 2020, Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee published a report into Russian interventions in UK elections and referendums. It did not provide a definitive conclusion on whether Russia had attempted to influence the results of the EU referendum but did criticise successive governments for failing to fully assess or counter the threat." "There is no good reason to believe that Russian intervention influenced the outcome of the referendum in 2016. It is also insulting to suggest that voters were so easily duped." Burnham's comments are "another crude attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the decision that the British people made in 2016." What is more interesting, is the EU itself is interferes in certain European general elections, against the anti-EU & right wing politicians it condemns as populist i.e. disagrees with the socialist, totalitarian EU. The US House Judiciary Committee issued a report in February 2026 alleged that the European Commission pressured social media platforms to censor speech and pushed narratives unfavorable to conservative and populist parties in countries like France, the Netherlands, and Romania. In early 2026 the then Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, US Vice President JD Vance & others accused Brussels of direct political pressure & financial coercion, such as withholding EU funds or applying regulatory weight under the Digital Services Act to sway domestic politics & weaken anti-EU or Eurosceptic leadership. The EU lies, framing it as protections against so-called hate speech.