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Why Boris is right to resist calls for tougher sanctions on Russia

24 February 2022

5:00 AM

24 February 2022

5:00 AM

Did Boris Johnson fail to put his money where his mouth is when it came to hitting Russia with sanctions? The Prime Minister’s critics think so: they argue that the targeting of five Russian banks and three oligarchs as a response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was too little, too late. These cries came not only from Labour, and from the Green party’s Caroline Lucas (who scandalously accused the PM, without a shred of evidence, of wanting to appease would-be Tory donors), but from his own side.

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