Evgeny Lebedev, the son of a former KGB agent who was given a peerage by Boris Johnson, has insisted he is not a security risk, as the UK imposed sanctions against hundreds of Russian politicians, accusing them of being complicit in the invasion of Ukraine.
After new concerns were raised over the scrutiny process behind Lord Lebedev’s peerage, the media magnate issued a statement through one of the newspaper he owns, the Evening Standard, in which he dismissed the “farcical” speculation as Russophobia.
