And after his Labour conference speech, he told GB News he could not “leave Britain out” of discussions around the UK’s future relationship with the bloc and insisted on the need to consider all options.Now, speaking to Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell on the Rest is Politics podcast, he said: “I asked the question coming to Downing Street, well was there interference in the 2016 referendum from Russia? I’ve had the clear answer that yes, there was.”These things are important now to put clearly on the record and I believe help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia.”I think we’ve been too much on the back-foot on that actually and we haven’t informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas.”