UK refuses to publish security advice around Lebedev's appointment to upper chamber


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 May 2022

FILE PHOTO: Media mogul Evgeny Lebedev attends the Evening Standard Theatre awards in London November 30, 2014. REUTERS/Neil Hall

LONDON (Reuters) -The British government has refused to publish the advice Prime Minister Boris Johnson received from security services before the British-Russian media boss Evgeny Lebedev was appointed to parliament's upper chamber citing national security.

Johnson has come under political pressure over his friendship with Lebedev, and the opposition Labour Party won a vote in March to demand the release of information about the businessman's appointment to the House of Lords.

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