Britain will face a "full spectrum" Russian threat for "years to come", a new report has claimed.

The Kremlin's use of hackers, trolls, paid protesters and misinformation are all part of a destabilisation strategy, Tory MP Bob Seely suggests.

In a peer-reviewed report for think tank the Henry Jackson Society, the Conservative MP says the covert and overt forms of malign influence used by Moscow should be termed "contemporary Russian conflict".

He suggests the Kremlin considers non-military tools to be potentially more powerful than military tools, with instruments such as information warfare, cultural manipulation and social media hacktivism being used to achieve foreign policy goals without the use of direct force.

Mr Seely argues Russian President Vladimir Putin views the Western system, based on the rule of law and universal human rights, as "antithetical to Russia” and seeks to portray Russia a victim of Western action.

He said: "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.