www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... The Boris Files reveal how former disgraced PM continues to shamefully use his £115,000 publicly subsidised allowance to manage his own commercial interests. For example, Johnson paid £240,000 weeks after meeting Venezuelan leader Maduro last year. Henry Dyer 2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... In an interview with the BBC, Ashley Rubright also says she disagrees with President Donald Trump that the US should move on from the scandal.
"Let me state clearly: the law must take its course." King Charles III
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... Extract "...The problem spreads further and higher than Reform, however. The former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has serious questions to answer about his relationship with Lord Lebedev, whose father was a KGB officer.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... There is, as they say, no such thing as a former KGB officer. In April 2018, when Boris Johnson was Foreign Secretary, he visited Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa, a location allegedly being investigated for use in spying.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... He did so without his officials and travelled to Lebedev’s villa directly from a NATO summit. We were told by the former Prime Minister that
“no Government business was discussed.”
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... We have only his word for that. I will let hon. Members make up their own mind about how much trust should be placed in the former Prime Minister’s words.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... In 2021, Italy’s foreign intelligence agency wrote to the Italian Prime Minister to report that Lord Lebedev’s father
“enjoyed the favour and friendship of Vladimir Putin”
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... and continued to attend KGB meetings in Moscow. The House of Lords Appointments Commission raised concerns about “significant potential risks” from Lord Lebedev’s “familial links”,
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... but thanks to the former Conservative Prime Minister, this man now sits in the other place, with all the access and credibility that that place imparts,
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... Extract "The Gill conviction came more than five years after the 2020 Russia report from the Intelligence and Security Committee, which called Russian influence in the UK “the new normal”.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026... It is an unforgivable gap in the British state’s response to the Russian threat that a similar inquiry still has not been undertaken into the Brexit referendum.