More MFI than MI5, security services may have welcomed Russian interfearance.

From what I can see the  Russia Report is akin to what happens in a police inquiry into corruption which concludes that senior officers new that was happening , but did nothing about it  for fear of what they would find including implicating themselves.

The report criticised intelligence agencies for not taking action during the EU referendum, despite there being "credible open source commentary" suggesting "influence campaigns" from the Russians during the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.

Itar-Tass, citing a source in the Conservative Prime Minister's office, said Britain was "extremely interested" in referendum support from Russia, which thatyear holds the presidency of the influential G8 group of rich industrial nation

Considering David Cameron Government wanted the backing of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the battle against Scottish independence could it be possible that inspired the Russians to then interfere in the European Elections

The report it said the government only "belatedly realised the level of threat which Russia could pose" after the so-called "hack and leak" operation against the Democrats in the 2016 US election, calling it a "game changer".

The committee said: "Had the relevant parts of the intelligence community conducted a similar threat assessment prior to the [EU] referendum, it is inconceivable that they would not have reached the same conclusion as to Russian intent, which might then have led them to take action to protect the process."

The report also said that social media companies "hold the key and yet are failing to play their part", adding that the government should "name and shame those which fail to act."

The MPs' report claimed the government made no effort to investigate claims of Russian interference in the EU referendum and criticised intelligence agencies for not giving the issue more attention.

And it said the government only "belatedly realised the level of threat which Russia could pose" after the so-called "hack and leak" operation against the Democrats in the 2016 US election, calling it a "game changer".

Labour will later use an Urgent Question in Parliament to highlight what it says are multiple "shortcomings" in the UK's national security policy shown up by the report.

Mr Thomas-Symonds said: "On every level the government's response does not appear to be equal to the threat.

"The UK has world leading security services, yet this report makes clear they have not received the strategic support, the legislative tools or the resources necessary to defend our interests.

"The government need to urgently outline how they will address these systemic failings."

"World leading security services " it seems more  MFI rather than MI5and I can't help feel that there were people in both the UK government and security services who had an interest in getting the result which occurred in both referendums and were happy to see Russia interfering to  obtain it.

Much of the media also wanted the result in both the Scottish Independence Referendum and European Referendum 

indeed I suspect they will not investigate themselves into Russian interference in the European elections , but will make vague assertions that Russia interfered in the Scottish referendum  to get a YES vote , despite the uK call for aid in getting a NO vote.

The problem sees is that the General Public will be kept in the dark still and probably can't see how Russia or amyl other nation can interfere in another's democratic process.

Perhaps the first revelations from a new and robust inquiry into what Russia did rather than whether they did and we are made aware of how it was carried out.