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Mar 7 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
🛑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-…
Cover up after cover up
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.
Oh, in case you are not familiar with Evgeny #Lebedev, here are pics of him in his Italian property in Umbria with his beloved pet wolf dog Boris.
So, why did the MI6 think that Boris Johnson's unofficial visits to his friend's Evgeny #Lebedev's Italian property made Boris (the man) a security risk?
@johnsweeneyroar investigated this a few years back.

Here's the explainer
Despite evidence about Johnson's role in Evgeny #Libedev getting a peerage and him ignoring secret security warnings, he maintains that is not the case. His excuse? That he does not do anti-Russianism...

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