LONDON: Digging up the past of Britain’s outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson has increased since he announced his resignation, involving moral accusations and espionage.
This time, questions were raised in Britain about the truth and nature of Johnson’s meeting with a former Russian agent four years ago, specifically in April 2018, about a month after Moscow was accused of trying to poison former Russian agent in Salisbury, Britain, Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
Johnson travelled directly from Brussels to Italy, where he met Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB agent, over the weekend, at a castle in Perugia owned by Evgeny Lebedev, the Russian agent’s son.
According to a report by British newspaper The Guardian, a picture of Johnson appeared at the time at an airport in Italy near Perugia. He was Foreign Secretary, then.
The case first came to light when The Guardian newspaper reported in July 2019 that Johnson met Lebedev in an Italian palace in 2018, when he was foreign minister. Johnson did not comment at the time.
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