Russian billionaire says there was ‘nothing unusual’ in meeting the then foreign secretary
Boris Johnson met an ex-KGB agent during a highly controversial trip to attend a party two days after attending a high-level
Nato summit that focused on
Russia, the Observer can reveal.
The prime minister, who was foreign secretary at the time, met
Russian billionaire businessman Alexander Lebedev, whose family owns Britain’s Independent and Evening Standard newspapers, following a summit of foreign ministers in
Brussels staged in the wake of the poisoning of ex-Russian agent Sergei Skripal.