Labour want BoJo to go now over Spygate
Labour is demanding Boris Johnson quit immediately as PM because they say he poses a national security risk while he stays in No10.
It follows Johnson’s admission he met a former Russian spy without either officials or his security team present.
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have written to new Cabinet Office minister Kit Malthouse demanding a full investigation. They want MI5 to conduct a damage assessment into a meeting between Johnson and ex-KGB officer Alexander Lebedev at son Evgeny’s luxury Italian holiday home three years ago.
Lebedev snr is sanctioned by Canada over his part in the Ukraine War. Johnson was Foreign Secretary at the time and Britain was in the grip of the fallout from Vladamir Putin’s
Salisbury
Novichok attack.
Rayner said:
“If the PM is found to have breached national security protocols he has no option but to leave office immediately and face the full consequences of the
He poses an ongoing threat to national security. This murky affair has been covered up for too long already.”
Labour want MI5 to examine the PM’s phone to see if it was bugged and check that no secret documents from the NATO summit Johnson had just attended were compromised.
Last week the PM told the Commons Liaison Committee he had visited
Alexander Lebedev on April 28, 2018. He later handed Evgeny, who owns the Evening Standard, a peerage.
In their letter, the Labour duo tell Malthouse: “He appears to have shown a shocking disregard for national security, raising the possibility of a major security breach right at the heart of government.”