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Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele has said Russia is at war with the UK and revealed his involvement in the 'dodgy dossier' against ex-US President Donald Trump cost his wife her Foreign Office career.
Steele, 57, claimed Russian leaders view themselves at war with the UK and slammed politicians for failing to recognise the threat in a televised interview.
He described evidence of Russian hostilities towards the UK, including alleged interference in the Brexit campaign and Scottish Referendum as well as corrupt money being brought onshore, but provided only scant detail.
The former spy also claimed his involvement the dossier, published by Buzzfeed in 2017, cost his wife Katherine her Foreign Officer career by forcing her into early retirement.
Steele penned the 35-page document, which alleged that the Kremlin colluded with Trump's presidential campaign, in 2016 after his private intelligence company Orbis Business Intelligence was hired by a law firm representing the Democrats.
Among other things, the 'golden shower' dossier claimed that the Russian security services could blackmail the President-Elect with allegations that he paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed once slept in by Barack and Michelle Obama.
Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele has said Russia is at war with the UK and revealed his involvement in the 'dodgy dossier' against ex-US President Donald Trump cost his wife her Foreign Office career
Steele's 2016 'dirty dossier' on newly elected President Donald Trump in 2017 alleged he was in Vladimir Putin's pocket and claimed he threw an orgy with prostitutes on a Moscow trip
Steele, once MI6's leading expert on the Kremlin, said he had uncovered evidence of Russian hostilities towards the UK in an interview with Sky News.
He said evidence included 'everything from corrupt leadership money being brought onshore and invested in strategic industries and the like, which is something of concern, to potential attempts to fund parts of the Brexit campaign and interference in that, [the] Scottish referendum, some evidence of interference in that as well.'
He declined to provide details of the alleged evidence but said there was 'clearly some of the same playbook' such as exploiting loopholes.
'Money being moved through deniable
