British diplomacy has more urgent priorities than punishing Russia for a decade-old death as shown by strong rhetoric but feeble actionFrom a British diplomatic point of view,the Litvinenko affair has long been viewed as murky water under the bridge. Punishments had already been meted out in 2006 and no one in British government circles needed a high court judge to convince them that Alexander Litvinenko’s murder might have happened with Vladimir Putin’s knowledge.
The British government did not want Sir Robert Owen’s inquiry to be established in the first spot and would certainly never have wanted its explosive findings, implicating the Russian president, and to be published at a such an excruciatingly sensitive time. As brutal as it may sound,Syria, Ukraine and the state of the world economy all purchase priority over a decade-old death.
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Source: theguardian.com