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John Bercow, the Commons speaker, has granted an emergency debate tomorrow on allegations that Vote Leave broke election spending rules in the EU referendum. He took the decision as lawyers claimed a number of possible criminal offences may have been committed by members of the official Brexit campaign during the EU referendum. What Corbyn said about Russia being to blame, but not necessarily being directly responsible - Full quote and analysis This is what Jeremy Corbyn said in his speech about the evidence for Russia being responsible for the Salisbury attack. Based on the analysis conducted by government scientists, there can be little doubt that the nerve agent used in this attack was military-grade novichok of a type manufactured by Russia. Since that analysis was revealed by the prime minister two weeks ago the Russian state has had every opportunity to offer a plausible explanation as to how a nerve agent stock of this type came to be used in this attack. There is clear evidence that the Russian state has a case to answer and that they’ve failed to do so and we can therefore draw no other conclusion other than Russia has a direct or indirect responsibility for this. In his Guardian article on Thursday 15 March he referred to the possibility of a Russian mafia-like group being responsible. Corbyn is still holding out the possibility that a third-party may have got hold of Russian nerve agent and used it to try to kill Sergei Skripal and his daughter. So, Corbyn has firmed up his stance on Russia being to blame, but still won’t say it was definitely directly responsible for ordering the attack. Corbyn claims he has been criticising Russia for 20 years, but Labour MP tells him that’s not true.