What Putin and his cronies fear is the glare of exposure

The “Magnitsky powers” which are being proposed in Parliament this week aren’t just welcome; they’re essential in the wake of the Salisbury nerve agent poisonings. We’ve clearly got to get a lot tougher with anyone – not just Russians – who tries to use the streets of Britain for “hybrid warfare”: state-sponsored crimes which stop short of full-on military attack, but still damage our country.

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