Rishi Sunak fails to answer why he helped a sanctioned Russian warlord
Rishi Sunak at PMQs: This is a stock pic – he’s not usually this animated.
Rishi Sunak is coming under pressure to explain why he apparently helped Russian oligarch and warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin dodge sanctions against him in order to sue a UK journalist for libel (the case later collapsed but left the journalist owing £70,000 in legal fees).
Prigozhin is the founder of Wagner, a private army that is currently understood to be committing atrocities in Ukraine.
Challenged on it in Prime Minister’s Questions, Sunak had the nerve to say he was proud of the UK’s sanction system – a system over which he appears to have run roughshod.
And he copped out of answering the question by saying there’s a government organisation that deals with such matters.
This Writer was watching the exchange via the BBC’s Politics Live programme, and was hoping the panel would discuss this matter afterwards, as my tweets showed.
No such luck. I wonder why?
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How much was Sunak bribed/ promised by this Russian oligarch?