British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s revelation that he had met former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev at the height of the Novichok nerve agent poisoning case in Salisbury constitutes a “serious breach of security”, according to opposition Labour.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described the meeting between then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Lebedev as “unthinkable” given the timing in the wake of a chemical attack on British soil.
During his appearance before a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, Johnson admitted for the first time that he had met with the Russian oligarch without officials present in April 2018.
Pressure has since been mounting on the prime minister to explain the nature of the meeting, which came on the heels of a NATO summit on how to respond to the Kremlin.
Speaking to Sky News today, Cooper said: “We don’t know what happened at that meeting, we don’t even know if the Prime Minister actually disclosed that there was going to be a meeting or told officials afterwards.
“It is simply unthinkable that at a time when we had a chemical attack on British soil and it was so serious that we called a NATO meeting on how to respond to Russia, the Foreign Secretary is going to meet with a former KGB agent, someone who who has since been sanctioned by Canada for close ties to President Putin. The meeting at that time shows an irresponsible disregard for national security risks. We need to know the facts about what happened and what the heck it was all about irresponsible to our national security at that time,” Cooper said, among other things.
Source: Capital
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