I wrote to the Electoral Commission to ask if it is looking into concerns that Russian-backed adverts could have influenced millions of voters on Facebook ahead of the EU referendum and the last general election.

It's absolutely vital that social media giants come clean about foreign nations meddling in our debates. So it's now time for the Electoral Commission to demand full disclosure from them and demand it now.

Read the Electoral Commission's full response below.

“We need the lessons of our history now more than ever before”
Launch of Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain  
Rt Hon. Liam Byrne MP
Monday 9th October 2017
The State Rooms, House of Commons

Thank you for coming to celebrate the launch of Dragons, the Paperback.

My remarks to the Big Tent Ideas Fest 2017, at Twyford, Berkshire.
Renewing the grassroots of mainstream politics: lessons from the pioneers of social, economic and cultural renewal
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Ten years on from the Great Financial Crash, millions feel no further forward. Because they’re not. We’re mired in the worst squeeze on living standards since the days of Dickens. And now this crippling, seemingly endless malaise, has provoked the worst crisis of cooperation for a generation; we are divided between rich and poor, between young and old, and now with our closest neighbours with the vote for Brexit.