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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pippa Crerar and Pjotr Sauer

UK cabinet ministers barred from visiting Russia amid missile row

Left to right: Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and Angela Rayner walking along a street holding umbrellas
Left to right: Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and Angela Rayner are among 30 British citizens on Russia’s latest ‘stop list’. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Russia has banned cabinet ministers including Angela Rayner, Yvette Cooper and Rachel Reeves from entering the country under new sanctions announced by Moscow’s foreign affairs ministry.

More than a dozen other senior Labour politicians are among the 30 British citizens on the Russian “stop list” after tensions between London and Moscow rose following Ukraine’s recent use of British missiles to strike deeper into Russia.

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