Boris Johnson admits to private meeting with ex-KGB agent
by Dan Sabbagh Defence and security correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#614TE)
Prime minister confirms meeting with Alexander Lebedev in Italy in 2018 when he was foreign secretary
Boris Johnson has admitted for the first time that he met ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev at an Italian palazzo without officials present in April 2018, when he was foreign secretary.
The prime minister told MPs that he had certainly met" Lebedev, also the former owner of the Independent, acknowledged that the meeting took place privately, and, after a pause, said the encounter took place in Italy as it happens".
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