Starmer: Russians hide cash in ‘soft touch’ UK

Labour leader accuses the Tories of failing to counter the flow of corrupt money into UK property sector

• Will the Tories hand back Russian cash as Putin threatens war?

The creeping tendrils of the Kremlin" have been allowed to wrap themselves around the UK and turn London into a global money laundering capital, Keir Starmer has said, as he accused successive Conservative governments of failing to act on the threat.

In an excoriating attack on the government's stance on Russian influence within Britain, the Labour leader said that the UK needed to get our own house in order" as it unites with the west to confront Vladimir Putin.