Labour has demanded the release of the Cabinet Office’s full guidance about a peerage for Evgeny Lebedev, the newspaper owner and son of a KGB spy, before Boris Johnson allegedly intervened to override security concerns of the intelligence agencies.
As the prime minister comes under continued pressure over his friendship with the Russian-born peer, Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, called on the Cabinet Office to release the guidance it prepared for the House of Lords appointment commission before it was “sanitised”.
