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Boris Johnson stepped back from immediately placing the capital into the second Very High risk group as he outlined the nation’s new triple-tiered lockdown system this afternoon London is on the brink of a new lockdown with the city’s nine million residents banned from seeing their friends and family indoors within days. Boris Johnson stepped back … Read more
‘Dirty dossier’ ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele criticises the UK’s ‘inadequate’ response to Russian political interference designed to push parties to ‘extremes’ Mr Steele said UK had been too slow in countering threat of Russian disruption Said lax regulation of Russian money in British politics was particularly worrying Former spy’s intelligence consultancy was behind 2016 report … Read more
Labour demands licence review of Russian state-owned broadcaster RT in wake of ‘troubling revelations’ about former leader Jeremy Corbyn’s links to Moscow in bombshell security report Labour has gone to Ofcom and called for a review of Putin-backed RT’s licence It comes after a report laid bare the influence of the Russian state in UK … Read more
‘Love of my life’: Lord Bates and Li Xuelin on their wedding day in 2012 Li Xuelin has always been a woman in a hurry. But perhaps on her wedding day, she allowed herself a moment to reflect on her dizzying, though carefully calibrated, journey from communist China to the heart of the British Establishment. After exchanging … Read more
Boris Johnson is accused of ‘parachuting in’ loyalist ex-Cabinet minister Chris Grayling to head Commons intelligence watchdog Chris Grayling is expected to be installed as chair of the intelligence watchdog Boris Johnson accused of ‘parachuting in’ the ex-Cabinet minister to key role Committee’s first task to be publishing long-held report on Russian interference By James … Read more