‘Sergei And The Westminster Spy Ring’, New Podcast Trailer Out. Weekly episodes from Tuesday.

From exclusive parties at the Russian Embassy to the corridors of Westminster, journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose an alleged spy ring operating at the very heart of the British political system. This is the untold story of the most audacious Russian influence operation in British history. It involves honey traps, Russian agents and information warfare.

As we go to press, the Electoral Commission is urging Keir Starmer to take a tougher stance on donations to political parties because Elon Musk — the world's richest man — wants to donate up to £80m to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. 

We can’t let Elon Musk do in the UK what he has done in the US and buy our democracy out from under us. 

This brand new podcast from the Citizens and sister company Project Citizen, seeks to shine a light in the dark corners of a Westminster spy ring, and show how power infiltrates and subverts democracy. It’s why we at the Citizens, with your support, took a legal action against the UK government to protect our elections from foreign interference; a case that is now at the European Court of Human Rights. 

Our legal challenge and this campaign is more important than ever as overseas actors like Musk threaten to consolidate power on both sides of the Atlantic by making use of a weak legal framework - one that our legal action seeks to strengthen. 

Listen to the trailer now - with episodes dropping weekly from Tuesday on all your usual podcast channels.

‘SERGEI AND THE WESTMINSTER SPY RING’, NEW PODCAST TRAILER OUT! - The Citizens

From exclusive parties at the Russian Embassy to the corridors of Westminster, journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British political system. This is the untold story of the most audacious Russian influence operation […]

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You can expect a nine-part series, where Russian wealth and glamour collide with a wild west of new digital landscapes. As Sergei tries and fails to raise the alarm, this intoxicating cocktail – shaken and stirred from within the Russian Embassy in London – masks the tightening iron fist of Vladimir Putin inside Russia and murder of traitors on foreign soil. All while MPs, intelligence officers and the police turn a blind eye.

Not since the reach of the Cambridge spy ring in the second half of the 20th century has the Kremlin aimed so high and gone so unnoticed in penetrating the highest echelons of British politics.

Together, Conservative whistleblower Sergei Cristo, Orwell Prize-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr and creator of the hit podcast, Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder, Peter Jukes, uncover a story that forms one small corner of Vladimir Putin’s plot against the West.

It’s a story we’re still living, where the stakes couldn’t be higher.