Thread by @carolecadwalla

Out all day so just catching up with sweeping no-holds-barred sanctions Johnson promised if Russia invaded. Three people sanctioned. THREE! And doesn’t even include oligarch US authorities named as subverting global elections - aka @George_Osborne’s boss

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

We need to talk about Roman Abramovich. But first we need to talk about Oleg Deripaska.

He’s been major player in UK for more than a decade, he employs a lord & former Chancellor of Exchequer. And - according to Senate Intel Report - he subverts elections

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1441151675582926852?s=21

Remember. There’s been zero - ZERO - investigation into Russian interference in UK because as we now know, the govt ‘actively avoided’ looking.

So these US reports are closest we get. That & work by UK journalists - half of whom are being sued for undertaking this work.

Remember yachtgate? This stuff goes back years. Before @George_Osborne went to work for Deripaska & before an ex-KGB officer picked him to edit Standard & before Standard supported Boris Johnson’s mayoral campaign, there was this…

thetimes.co.uk/article/george…

The support of Lebedev’s Eve Standard was critical to Boris Jonson becoming mayor. The peerage was payback. But it’s simply the most visible point of a network of patronage & fealty to an oligarch class he’s now obligated to protect

35 oligarchs who should be on the sanctions list, according to @LaylaMoran. (Deripaska included.)