Despite ample encouragement from her shadow,the home secretary singularly fails to call the Russian president to taskAlexander Litvinenko solved his own murder; Theresa May merely foresaw her own embarrassment. In January 2014 the home secretary did her best to head off any inquiry into the Russian’s 2006 death. So much polonium, so little time. By July 2014 the political pressure was so intense she had little option but to bite the bullet. Since then she’s been keeping her fingers crossed that Sir Robert Owen would effect the decent thing and remove his time before coming to some fairly anodyne conclusions.
Disappointingly for May, or Owen has proved to be a more thorough investigator than she anticipated. His report left Vladimir Putin with radioactive fingermarks glowing all over his collar and May with the giant headache of trying to sound tough with the Russian president in her statement to the Commons,when everyone knows the British government is terrified of upsetting him. Putin wouldn’t bother to poison May, he’d just tickle her to death instead.
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Source: theguardian.com