Dirty money

TURNING a blind eye to the laundering of dirty Russian money in Britain was a pact with the devil we must end immediately.

A police officer lying injured in hospital alongside an MI6 double agent and his daughter after the suspected Kremlin “hit” in Salisbury is why our country should never have tolerated billions of dodgy pounds sloshing about in London bank accounts.

Letting the gangster capitalists of Moscow and St Petersburg treat Britain as their playground was and is a mistake.

If evidence for this week’s outrage points to Vladimir Putin’s circle, banning his cronies and operatives is the minimum response.

Freezing assets would also hit them where it really hurts.