How significant are Burnham's remarks on Kremlin interference in Brexit vote? - AOL

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Second that Russian English-language media outlets RT and Sputnik published a large amount of anti-EU and pro-Brexit content, which had a wide reach.
53% : The Russia topic came up as part of a wide-ranging interview Burnham gave to The Rest is Politics, excerpts of which were released on Sunday, in which he appeared to suggest he had been given new information about the Brexit vote.
53% : Burnham is due to make a Commons statement on Monday afternoon on Brexit and Europe, where he will also have the opportunity to say if the intelligence agencies have made a fresh assessment about whether there was Kremlin interference in 2016.
52% : The idea that one country, with an interest in weakening the UK and the EU, could have had a decisive influence in a vote of 33.5 million people is debatable.
48% : The third aspect, and the most contentious, were claims that Arron Banks, a donor to the pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, had links to Russia.
46% : But the EU referendum was also a complex, closely fought campaign in which many points of view were in play.
44% : The difference is significant - if there was a fresh assessment it would run counter to the previous position, established under a succession of Conservative governments in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
43% : A subsequent investigation by the National Crime Agency into £8m-worth of loans Banks provided to Brexit campaigns run by Farage concluded the money was legitimately his and there was no evidence of wrongdoing.
37% : It was a contentious issue in the second half of the previous decade, but one that had largely been forgotten about as the UK finally adjusted to the reality of leaving the EU.
35% : Andy Burnham unexpectedly reopened an old Brexit debate when he said he had been told after becoming prime minister that Russia had interfered in the 2016 EU referendum.
31% : The prime minister is making a broader argument that Britain needs to reconsider its relationship with the EU, arguing Brexit has not delivered what was promised.

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