The Starmer Fires: The Russian Connection - Panorama

BBC Two England

7:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Monday 15 June

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In May last year, three arson attacks targeted the Prime Minister with two properties and a car set alight. But who lit the fires and why? Daniel De Simone investigates and finds the shadowy figures behind the attacks were also behind fake far-right groups trying to stoke hatred and division in the UK. The fires fit a pattern in which hostile states such as Russia are increasingly using proxies here to do their dirty work. So could Russia be behind the Starmer fires?