She will be feeling a hand of history on her shoulder, and wondering if the other holds a knife at her back.
Dorian Bartley, whose day job involves working alongside police to “reduce crime”, also shared conspiracy theories about terrorist attacks in the UK and US.
The “extraordinary international response by our allies” amounts to “the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever”, Johnson says.
The UK can not allow Russia to believe it got away with it without serious consequences.
It can be a proxy for “leadership” – and it offers the chance to further differentiate the party culturally from Labour.
It’s all too easy to ascribe the capabilities of Russia’s best chess players to its secret services. But consider a radical possibility: the latter have messed up.
Not everybody on the Opposition benches seems to think that the Russians might have been set up.
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.
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.”
The Prime Minister reports that the Foreign Secretary has summoned the Russian ambassador to account for his country’s actions.
The erroneous assumption that hostile states were no longer relevant has rightly been abandoned. Now our Armed Forces need the resources to meet the challenge.
“If there is evidence of a foreign state’s involvement, we will need to respond in a way which is appropriate.”
We don’t yet know if Russia poisoned Sergei Skripal. But there was already more than enough reason not to take part in the Kremlin’s propaganda tournament.
When open markets are being called into question by the Left, the last thing the economy needs is for a Conservative Government to play the interventionist card.