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The 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform in Wales, is severe, but that's what you get for taking bribes from an alleged Russian agent.

For around £40,000 in payments from Oleg Voloshyn, the ex-MEP delivered planted speeches, media appearances and political interventions designed to launder Kremlin narratives into the European Parliament and onto Ukrainian television.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told him he had “lost his moral compass”.

Meanwhile, Scotland Yard said this was not an isolated incident but part of “widespread” Russian attempts to shape British politics .

Gill’s conviction has understandably created huge political problems for Reform UK .

Nigel Farage insists his former pa

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