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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mikey Smith

Priti Patel defends refugee checks because Putin could be sending women with bio-weapons

Priti Patel has defended stringent checks on Ukrainian refugees because they might be Russian agents bringing biological weapons into the UK.

Speaking at Conservative Party Spring Conference in Blackpool, the Home Secretary said it was "naive" to believe women could not be "covert operatives".

And she claimed Vladimir Putin could exploit refugee flows to send agents to Britain.

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