Such measures proposed include the immediate expulsion of Russian diplomats and pushing for a Nato-wide reinforcement in Eastern Europe
THERESA May is drawing up a “full spectrum” retaliation against Vladimir Putin for the nerve agent hit on spy Sergei Skripal, The Sun can reveal.
The PM has told ministers to prepare a powerful response across diplomatic, economic and military fronts to punish the Salisbury outrage – dubbed by Home Secretary Amber Rudd as “a brazen and reckless act”.
Intelligence chiefs are just “a few days” away from establishing hard proof that poison plot was ordered by Moscow.
Senior Whitehall sources said Mrs May accepts she must then initiate a response to match the public uproar that will meet the revelation that another state was behind a chemical weapons attack on British soil.
It will include:
– The immediate expulsion of senior Russian diplomats and spies, as well as potentially cancelling Kremlin-linked oligarch’s visas to London, plus asset freezes and travel bans.
– A statement of joint international condemnation from Britain’s closest allies – France’s President Emmanuel Macron and German leader Angela Merkel.
– In the longer term, boosting Britain’s military deployments in Eastern Europe with more jets and troops, as well as a pushing for a NATO-wide reinforcement at the alliance’s summit in July.
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BREAKING: British PM Theresa May threatens military and economic retaliation against Russia if Vladimir Putin is proven to be behind poisoned spy attackhttps://t.co/je7SJJeRs0
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