New Assange eviction bid

BRITAIN is in high-level talks with Ecuador to evict Julian Assange from the country’s London embassy, it was reported yesterday.

Ministers and senior Foreign Office officials are said to be in discussions over the fate of the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been sheltering in the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge for more than six years, costing millions of pounds.

The talks, come weeks before a visit to the UK by new Ecuador president Lenin Moreno, who says Mr Assange is an “inherited problem” and a “stone in the shoe”.