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Friday 2 June 2017

May, Corbyn clash over Brexit plans with UK vote a week away

LONDON (AP) — The top leave her in charge after recent days. May has faced some criti- He said leaving the EU with-
contenders in Britain’s up- the June 8 vote. May has stuck to her strat- cism for declining to direct- out a replacement trade
coming election agreed “If they do, I am confident egy of trying to focus at- ly debate Corbyn or any of deal in place would be the
Thursday that Brexit is com- that we can fulfill the prom- tention on Labour leader the smaller party leaders. worst possible outcome
ing, but clashed over how ise of Brexit together and Jeremy Corbyn, saying that Corbyn used a rally in Basil- that could lead to a loss of
best to wiggle out of the build a Britain that is stron- he is unfit to helm Britain’s don, in southeastern Eng- high-paying British jobs.
European Union. ger, fairer and even more Brexit negotiations when land, to say that May and “That would mean slapping
Prime Minister Theresa May prosperous than it is today,” they begin in earnest later the Conservatives are put- tariffs on the goods we ex-
told supporters in northern May said. this month. ting Britain’s economy at port — an extra 10 percent
England that Britain’s vote She spoke as recent opin- “He doesn’t believe in Brit- risk by taking an unneces- on cars — with the risk that
nearly one year ago to ion surveys suggest her ain,” she said in a blistering sarily hard line toward the key manufacturers would
leave the EU bloc will make Conservative Party’s once attack. “He doesn’t have EU over Brexit terms, which leave for the European
a wealth of new opportu- commanding lead over La- a plan. He doesn’t have may lead to a breakdown mainland, taking skilled
nities available — if voters bour has been shrinking in what it takes.” in talks. jobs with them,” he said.q

Putin: Russia doesn’t hack but “patriotic” individuals might

By I. PHILLIPS some individuals to launch
V. ISACHENKOV cyberattacks.
Associated Press “Hackers are free people,
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) just like artists who wake up
— President Vladimir Putin in the morning in a good
acknowledged that some mood and start paint-
“patriotic” individuals may ing,” he said. “The hackers
have engaged in hack- are the same. They would
ing but insisted Russia as a wake up, read about
country has never done it, something going on in in-
and he pledged Thursday terstate relations and if
to wait out U.S. political they feel patriotic, they
battles to forge construc- may try to contribute to
tive ties with President Don- the fight against those who
ald Trump. speak badly about Russia.”
The Russian leader lament- At the same time, Putin ar-
ed what he described as gued that hackers, wher-
“Russo-phobic hysteria” ever they come from,
in the U.S. that makes it can’t sway election out-
“somewhat inconvenient comes because the public
to work with one another or opinion isn’t that easy to
even to talk,” adding that manipulate.
“someday this will have to “No hackers can have a
stop.” Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting with heads of international news agencies at radical impact on an elec-
U.S. intelligence agencies the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 1, 2017. tion campaign in another
(AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
have accused Russia of country,” adding that “no
hacking into Democrat- Speaking at a meeting with cyberattacks — he didn’t Putin said. “Modern tech- information can be im-
ic Party emails, helping senior editors of leading in- specify which — could nologies allow that to be printed in voters’ minds,
Trump’s election victory, ternational news agencies, have been falsified in an done quite easily.” in the minds of a nation,
and the congressional and Putin insisted that “we nev- attempt to smear Russia. Putin added that while the and influence the final out-
FBI investigations into the er engage in that at the “I can imagine that some Russian state has never come and the final result.
Trump campaign’s ties with state level.” do it deliberately, staging a been involved in hacking, No hackers can influence
Russia have shattered Mos- He alleged that some evi- chain of attacks in such a it was “theoretically pos- election campaigns in any
cow’s hopes for a detente dence pointing at Russian way as to cast Russia as the sible” that Russia-West ten- country of Europe, Asia or
with Washington. hackers’ participation in origin of such an attack,” sions could have prompted America.”q
France’s Macron under growing pressure to fire tainted ally

By PHILIPPE SOTTO vestigation Thursday into tial campaign. Ferrand is notably suspect- and after he became a
Associated Press a close ally of President The investigation comes at ed of past business prac- lawmaker in 2012. Ferrand
PARIS (AP) — A French Emmanuel Macron, put- a bad time for Macron and tices that benefited his ro- has also acknowledged hir-
prosecutor opened an in- ting the new leader under his government, as they are mantic partner during the ing his son as his parliamen-
growing pressure to clean striving to get a majority in time when he led an insur- tary aide for a few months.
up his own government af- parliament in two-round ance company. After say- The prosecutor’s statement
ter he campaigned to im- legislative elections this ing there were no grounds said police will investigate
prove ethical standards in month to push through his for an investigation, the whether there are grounds
politics. pro-business, pro-EU agen- prosecutor in Brest in west- to potentially charge Fer-
Macron stayed awkwardly da — and just as Justice ern France reversed course rand for property crimes,
silent after the announce- Minister Francois Bayrou and said it is opening a lack of probity and violat-
ment of the investigation detailed the first major bill probe. ing insurance codes.
into Territorial Cohesion of Macron’s presidency The U-turn follows a drum- Ferrand acknowledged
Minister Richard Ferrand, Thursday, a law intended beat of media reports and the facts in a statement
an early ally who played a to clean up corruption in questions about a possible this week, but denies any
pivotal role in the presiden- politics. conflict of interest before wrongdoing.q