The Foreign Secretary responds to questioning about UK sanctions against Russia and Russians.
The Conservative Party Chairman says the public can “draw their own conclusions” about Corbyn’s approach, however.
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“It was absolutely outrageous, what it did in Salisbury,” he says during his first major speech on defence policy.
We are so preoccupied with Brexit and Putin that we may have missed the significance of the President’s latest sacking-and-replacement.
On corruption, fragility, innovation, human capital, creditworthiness, GDP per head – all the measures that count for most – the country is, to put it politely, not in a great place.
The Leader of the Opposition admired himself for behaving like a backbench dissident.
She also told the Commons of new sanctions, Magnitsky legislation, and additional powers to curb the activities of the Kremlin’s agents.
“The United Kingdom will now expel 23 Russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers.”
Foreign policy is rarely at the centre of our politics, but the electorate are now likely to judge potential leaders in part on their stance towards the Kremlin.
The British Government needs to show the same resolve as in 1971, when Sir Alec Douglas-Home threw 105 KGB agents out of London.
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“We have led the way in securing tough sanctions against the Russian economy…We must now stand ready to take much more extensive measures.”
The Prime Minister reports that the Foreign Secretary has summoned the Russian ambassador to account for his country’s actions.