A committee of MPs has found that foreign governments such as Russia and China could have interfered with the Brexit referendum last June. Meanwhile, accident-prone Sean Spicer is in trouble after trying to defend the Syria airstrikes, claiming that “even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons”. The papersThe FT, like the Guardian, leads with the claims by Putin that the US may have been duped into believing that the Assad regime had carried out a chemical weapons attack and responding with an airstrike. Sign upIf you would like to receive the Guardian Morning Briefing by email every weekday at 7am, sign up here. More people than ever are regularly reading the Guardian, but far fewer are paying for it.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2017 05:37 UTC