Russia may have intervened in UK election
Around one month before the UK's general elections, Liberal party leader Jeremy Corbyn brought forward some leaked documents that showed that Boris Johnson was planning to privatize the UK's healthcare system. According to reports by Graphika, the information originally came from a Russian source. It is unclear whether or not the documents were obtained via a hack.
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