Report: UK officials ‘avoided’ looking into Russian meddling

By DANICA KIRKA, SYLVIA HUI and JAMEY KEATEN
LONDON — A long-awaited report on Russian influence in British politics criticized the British government for neglecting to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum, describing its utter lack of curiosity about the threats to democracy as being a major failure at the heart of power.
The parliamentary report’s authors accused the British government of “actively avoiding” looking into evidence of the Ru