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committee’s inquiry and has complained to No10 about the report being withheld, has said: “It’s certainly pertinent to an election.

“There has been a lot of disquiet about the possibility of Russian interference and our report looks at that.” One affected MP said: “I don’t know how many others have been targeted because all of us have been sworn to secrecy.

“We can’t even tell each other. It could be all of us MPS or just a small group. If we have been hacked on a routine basis then it must have a bearing on the election. Why else would they suppress it?”

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f ollows an investigation in the US into allegations that Russian hackers had a decisive influence on the election of President Donald Trump.

An organisation called the Internet Research Agency based in St Petersburg has been accused of creating thousands of social media accounts that purported to be Americans supporting Trump or political groups associated with his campaign.

Computer hackers were t raced ed to various arms s of president Putin’s tin’s military intellielligence service. .

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Democrats headquarters were found to have been bugged and files stolen.

The same military intelligence service, the GRU, was behind the assassination attempt in Salisbury, Wilts, 18 months ago on Russian defector Sergei Skripal, 67, and his daughter Yulia, 34.

Scotland Yard has issued an arrest warrant for the suspected hitmen, GRU officers Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Mum-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after being exp exposed to novichok nov the pair allegedly alle brought into Britain. Her boyfriend boy Charlie Rowley, Row 46, went in a coma but survived. surv