There is at least one member of Theresa May's Conservative government who is willing to criticize President Donald Trump and openly question his relationship with Russia.

Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely, a Conservative member of the British Parliament, tweeted as Trump traveled the country on Friday that the U.S. president has "been heavily reliant on Russia money." Seely conlcuded: "One of many reasons he is comprimsed":

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Seely has been an outspoken critic of what he perceives as Russian meddling in Western political affairs, most recently in June when the Tory MP wrote a peer-reviewed report for the Henry Jackson Society about Russian President Vladimir Putin's various attacks on Western democracy, according to the Press Association. In his assessment, Seely claimed that Putin's regime is engaged in a "full spectrum" destabilization strategy against the United States and other Western countries, including Seely's own United Kingdom, reminiscent of the Soviet Union's actions during the Cold War.

"Putin’s tactics owe much to the ‘active measures’ practised by the KGB during the Cold War, subverting truth to undermine our faith in our institutions," Seely wrote in his report:

From fake news aimed at Europe to the propaganda of RT, and from the occupation of Crimea to the streets of Salisbury, Russia is waging a very modern kind of conflict on the West – as well as on the Russian people themselves. Putin’s tactics owe much to the ‘active measures’ practised by the KGB during the Cold War, subverting truth to undermine our faith in our institutions. He seeks to demoralise and divide us. The coming years will test our resilience in multiple ways. If we are to counter Russian aggression and deter future attacks on us and our allies, understanding Contemporary Russian Conflict is a crucial first step.

RT, a Russian television network that has been accused of being a pro-Putin propaganda outlet (and which without question has a pro-Putin bias), unsurprisingly denounced Seely's report:

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The UK will see a “full spectrum” threat from Moscow for years to come, says Tory MP Bob Seely, in yet another attempt to foster Russophobia by publishing anti-Kremlin propaganda masquerading as a peer-reviewed study.