Boris Johnson was today branded a “poodle on roubles” for failing to impose tougher sanctions on Russian oligarchs, firms or cronies of Vladimir Putin.
Despite the Prime Minister’s claim to be leading the world in penalising the Kremlin, and a war crimes investigation being opened, the UK has so far targeted just 15 individual Russians including Putin and his Foreign Minister.
By contrast, the EU has imposed sanctions and travel bans on 702 people, including all the members of the Russian parliament, and more than 50 organisations with links to Putin.
