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It's 'highly likely' that Vladimir Putin used cyber warfare to influence the result of the EU referendum , a Labour MP claimed today.

Speaking in a debate on the crisis in Aleppo, former cabinet minister Ben Bradshaw suggested Russia's involvement in the Syria conflict is part of a wider bid to "destabilise the free world".

He said driving huge numbers of refugees out of Syria into the rest of the world is a "deliberate" part of that plan.

He told the House of Commons: "What Putin cannot achieve militarily, he will achieve through cyber and technological warfare"

Asked if he was concerned about the Kremlin interfering in the Brexit vote, he said: "I don’t think that we have even begun to wake up to what Russia is doing when it comes to cyber warfare, not only their now proven interference in the American presidential campaign - probably in our own referendum last year.

"We don’t have the evidence for that yet, but I think it’s highly probable."

Mr Bradshaw went on to suggest Russian hackers were planning to be "involved" in the upcoming elections in France and Germany.

"Certainly in the French general election they will be involved," he said.

"And there are already serious concerns in the German secret service that Russia is already interfering in the elections coming up."

He added: "We’ve got to wake up to this. When are we going to wake up to this?"

Donald Trump last week called the CIA’s conclusion that Russia attempted to manipulate the recent election to help him win "ridiculous"

Today the President elect picked millionaire oil boss Rex Tillerson, who has close ties with Vladimir Putin, to be his Secretary of State.