'no evidence! ' brexiteer slaps down remainer in clash over russia row

Brexiteer Lowri Turner and Remainer Yasmin Alibhai- Brown rowed over the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) report released on Tuesday which found the Government failed to fully

assess the impact Russian state-run media and "troll" accounts could have had on the EU referendum. The committee said open-source studies had pointed to the prevalence of anti-EU

or pro-Brexit stories on the RT and Sputnik networks as evidence of Russian attempts to influence the process. But Ms Turner insisted there is no evidence that Russia interefered. Speaking

on the Jeremy Vine show, panellist Lowri Turner said: "You can't run a vote again with the idea something might have happened. "At the moment there is no evidence of Russian

interference. "We are in an era where we're told everything has to be based on science, evidence and data. "Now all of a sudden there might have been Russian collusion, we

don't know. READ MORE: RUSSIA REPORT: BRITISH RESPONSE TO MEDDLING CLAIM INADEQUATE - ELLWOOD "We can't change the whole vote because something happened. We don't know it

happened." Remainer Yasmin Alibhai-Brown added: "Lowri, you cannot keep defending this record. In your interest as a Brexiteer, you should be sure that this thing was a clean

vote. "We need to do. We would not tolerate this in football but we do in politics?" Ms Turner continued: "Unfortunately for people who voted Remain this is yet another

possibility for them to patronise those who voted Leave. There's no evidence that the Russians did it at all!" Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said he took

"the strongest possible action" against Russia when he was foreign secretary. He added: "Sir Keir sat on his hands and said nothing while the Labour Party parroted the line of

the Kremlin when people in this country were poisoned at the orders of Vladimir Putin." Mr Starmer replied: "I stood up and condemned what happened in Salisbury and I supported

then-prime minister (Theresa May) on record, so I'd ask the Prime Minister to check the record." He asked about delays in bringing forward new security legislation, and Mr Johnson

insisted new laws are coming in connection with espionage, theft of intellectual property and sanctions.