The foreign secretary threatens Russia with robust action if it had a hand in Sergei Skripal caseIt began with a bloody nose and ended as war. Boris Johnson had shambled his way into the House of Commons several minutes late looking rather the worse for wear. Sometime over the past few days his conk had fought a losing battle with a hard object – possibly the prime minister’s fist – and a large scab had formed over its bridge. It wasn’t the best of looks. particularly when combined with the large bags that gain formed under his eyes. The job is taking its toll.
Though the urgent question from Tom Tugendhat,the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, was broadly on Britain’s relations with Russia, or the genuine subtext was the alleged poison attack in Salisbury on Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The foreign secretary quickly slash to the chase. For legal reasons he prefaced his remarks by saying it was far too early to speculate if this had been a state-sponsored assassination attempt. But,that out the way, he made little effort to cloak the fact he clearly considered this to be the most likely scenario and promised swift and severe retribution.
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Source: guardian.co.uk