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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nina Lloyd

Johnson’s meeting with Lebedev may have been ‘serious security breach’ – Labour

PA Wire

Boris Johnson’s revelation that he met with ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev at the height of the Salisbury poisoning scandal suggests a “serious security breach” took place, Labour has said.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper branded the private encounter between the then foreign secretary and Mr Lebedev “unthinkable” given its timing in the aftermath of a chemical attack on UK soil.

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