Ejected Past UK orders

1971: Edward Heath orders expulsion of 105 Soviet officials

1980: Margaret Thatcher expels 15 USSR diplomats

 1984: 30 Libyans expelled after WPC Yvonne Fletcher killed

 1985: 31 Soviets expelled in tit-for-tat row after Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB chief in London, is exposed as MI6 double agent

 2006: Four Russian diplomats expelled after Alexander Litvinenko is murdered

 2015: Four Russian diplomats expelled following “a change in visa policy” by UK