Flowers left after the death of Princess Diana: a moment Barnett describes as a 'foreshock' of Brexit. Image, Maxwell Hamilton, CC 2.0
It’s perfectly possible that the Russians managed to interfere in British and American democracy. It seems plausible that the House of Saud would try to swing British votes. Why wouldn’t they? After all, we know that the Israeli government even has the time to play around with British student politics.
If it does turn out that foreign states are working to sway British voters, then this is something we should be concerned about, sure. But I have to confess, over the last nine months, when Peter Geoghegan and I have been looking into where the DUP got their Brexit money from – and then a number of the stories that have followed from this – I have had a nagging worry.
