As she briefed the House of Commons on the state of Brexit negotiations following last week’s European Council summit, British Prime Minister Theresa May had one eye trained on the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn. The other was focused on a tranche of disgruntled backbenchers from within the ranks of her own party, led by ardent Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who believes in neither abortion nor same-sex marriage, and who has warned May of a revolt if she doesn’t deliver on the hard Brexit she has promised. Rees-Mogg, who was once described by The Economist as “the Royal Yacht Britannia in a pinstripe suit,” and who has been tipped by some to be the next prime minister, is not the sole thorn in May’s side. After the U.K.’s chief Brexit negotiator warned ministers that their coveted bespoke deal with the E.U. is not an option, May must now whisk her warring Cabinet off to her countryside retreat, Chequers, to thrash out a compromise that impossibly appeases the E.U. and the Rees-Mogg contingent, while preparing for a NATO summit next week and the subsequent arrival of Donald Trump.

The American president’s visit, already a topic of controversy, is likely to be even more strained following new reports that suggest a British insurance magnate named Arron Banks and his associates—the self-proclaimed “Bad Boys of Brexit”—made a concerted effort to foster relationships with Russian nationals at the same time they made inroads with those close to the Trump campaign. Whispers surrounding the source of Banks’s campaign donations has been the subject of determined investigations for months, including by Henry Porter at Vanity Fair. More recently, however, both The Washington Post and The New York Times have reported on a newly uncovered cache of Banks’s e-mails, which reveal that his connections to Russia run much deeper than initially suspected. Those connections have now attracted the attention of British parliamentary investigators and special counsel Robert Mueller alike, as well as congressional Democrats.

The tangled web between the Bad Boys, Trumpworld, and Russia can be traced back to 2012, when Nigel Farage, then-leader of the anti-immigration party UKIP, met Steve Bannon, who was then still at the helm of Breitbart News. Bannon’s site would go on to vocally support Farage’s campaign, and as Bannon and Farage’s parallel agendas flourished, so too did an alliance between Banks, who bankrolled Farage’s Leave.EU effort after it failed to score official backing; his associate and ally Andrew Wigmore; and Russian ambassador to the U.K. Alexander Yakovenko. Banks had previously admitted to at least one meeting with Yakovenko: a “boozy six-hour lunch” at Yakovenko’s London dwelling in 2015. But pressured by reports from The Guardian’s Carole Cadwalladr, among others, Banks later admitted he met with the Russians three times. On Friday, the number of meetings rose to four, and details piled up: per the Times, Banks’s Russian contacts offered him “at least three potentially lucrative investment opportunities in Russian-owned gold or diamond mines.” One of Banks’s business partners, James Mellon, was reportedly presented with similar offers, and appears to have taken advantage of at least one: