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"Ukraine targeted Alexander Lebedev as part of a wave of sanctions against individuals supportive of Russia’s war, placing greater scrutiny on the oligarch’s links to the UK government". @pcaruanagalizia @tortoise #RussiaReport

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Boris Johnson gave Lebedev’s son Evgeny, a close friend, a life peerage despite security warnings from MI5. "The Cabinet Office has told parliament that “Lord Lebedev is a man of good standing.” Lord Lebedev has said that he has “no links to the Kremlin". Image
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WOW @margarethodge🔥
#ConfidenceMotion 18/7/22
"It is not just about #partygate, dreadful though that was, nor the failed attempt to defend the indefensible behaviour of Owen #Paterson, nor the abhorrent culture of tolerating bullying & sexual harassment from political allies;
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..these contribute to a loss of confidence, but they do not stand alone. There is also the endless list of incompetence & waste—taxpayers’ money being tossed around like confetti, with £16 billion fraudulently squandered on #COVID business support.
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There are the shameful failures in ambulance waiting times, 6 million citizens waiting for hospital treatment, people unable to travel because of the crippling delays at the Passport Office, and a stream of rail strikes and chaos at the airports.
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The #LebedevScandal “is beginning to seem as if it could – & should – become the defining legacy of @BorisJohnson’s premiership” @carolecadwalla

It is “of another order to Wallpapergate or Partygate or the Chris Pincher scandal” #Lebedev #BorisJohnson theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
In 2019, during the investigation into Russian collusion in the US election/#Trump victory, @DevinNunes told Mueller

“What we’re trying to figure out here is if our Nato allies or @BorisJohnson has been compromised

The photo is of Johnson & Joseph Mifsud
From the start, Russia has always been in the corner of this diagram mapping my investigation of a #DataGrab for population-wide genomic data👇

Russian interference in the 2016 #Trump election & #Brexit vote made perfect sense

The #RussiaReport suggested M16 chose to look away
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🛑Why did Russian Evgeny #Lebedev get a peerage despite secret services' warnings that it would pose a risk to Uk national security? Because his friend Boris Johnson intervened 🔥 thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
Watch with us in disbelief as Foreign Office Minister James Cleverly reduces the issue to a comedy sketch.

Same pattern used by this government to ignore the concerns of the Parliamentary #RussiaReport on Russian interference into British politics.
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