AS THE government, its spies and their allies in the Establishment press continue with their ludicrous scaremongering and belligerent campaign against Russia, it is good that the Labour Party leadership is focusing on sensible measures rather than join the Tories in the game of “Who can shout the loudest?”

While Theresa May and her cronies are trying to whip up the hysteria about “big bad Vlad” in a transparent attempt to portray Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as somehow soft on “national security” — because he doesn’t want an insane bloody war — his shadow chancellor has been setting out the sort of rules that would curtail foreign meddling in our country’s politics.

John McDonnell is absolutely right to target purchases of property by secretive offshore companies, which has allowed the world’s dodgy super-rich to stuff their ill-gotten cash in Britain.