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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Boris Johnson finally admits he met ex-KGB agent on secretive jolly to Italy

Boris Johnson today admitted meeting a former Russian spy without officials or his security team while Foreign Secretary.

The Prime Minister finally confirmed he visited billionaire Alexander Lebedev, who was an officer in the First Chief Directorate of the Soviet Union′s KGB, at his son Evgeny’s luxury Italian holiday home three years ago.

The meeting took place on April 28, 2018 when Mr Johnson was the UK’s top envoy and charged with representing Britain abroad.

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