Boris Johnson is 'a risk to the country', Labour have said, after he admitted meeting an ex-KGB agent without officials present
Speaking to Sky News, Ms Rayner said:"We had this week the prime minister admitting that he met with the former KGB spy in secret without any of his officials with him."He was foreign secretary and he shouldn't be doing that, he knows he shouldn't be doing that and yet he's done it.
"He's just completely disregarded the rules and that's why he can't carry on, because he is a risk to the country. "If he lies to the British public, if he doesn't do the right thing and follow the rules, even his own rules that he put in place, then that's not acceptable."Meanwhile, Mr Johnson's former chief adviser Dominic Cummings has also claimed the prime minister met Mr Lebedev at the start of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020, without officials.
It comes amid an inquiry by the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee over the appointment to the House of Lords in 2020 of Mr Lebedev's son,The prime minister has repeatedly denied he intervened to ensure Lord Lebedev was offered a peerage despite being warned by British intelligence the move could pose a security threat.and backed the publication advice linked to his appointment.
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