Boris Johnson had a meeting with Russian-born pal Lord Lebedev the day after the media tycoon’s ex-KGB dad was hit by war sanctions in Canada.
Since then former spy chief Alexander Lebedev, 62, has faced no such crackdown from British authorities.
The rendezvous between the then PM and Evening Standard owner Lord Lebedev last May is said to have been a non-official ‘social meeting’.