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As Lord Lebedev of Hampton and Siberia is sworn in, prepare for some more swearing, and a quick thread on some of @BylineTimes reporting on him and @BorisJohnson courtesy of @Otto_English and @johnsweeneyroar https://twitter.com/dansabbagh/status/1339551750894870532
It was @Otto_English who first alerted our readers to the fact MI6 were worried in 'Spooking the Spooks
Media Complicity and Security Concerns over Lebedev and Johnson' in October last year https://bylinetimes.com/2019/10/25/spooking-the-spooks-media-complicity-and-security-concerns-over-lebedev-and-johnson/
Media Complicity and Security Concerns over Lebedev and Johnson' in October last year https://bylinetimes.com/2019/10/25/spooking-the-spooks-media-complicity-and-security-concerns-over-lebedev-and-johnson/
When the Lordship was announced in July this year, @Otto_English noted how Johnson was rewarding his Brexit & Russian Peers, despite the ISC Russia report https://bylinetimes.com/2020/07/31/lording-it-over-us-johnson-rewards-his-brexit-russian-peers/
A month later, the fearsome @johnsweeneyroar revealed that the security clearance for Lebedev had been changed, so that it could enable his ennoblement https://bylinetimes.com/2020/08/20/sweeney-investigates-what-changed-to-make-evgeny-lebedev-no-longer-a-security-risk/
Lebedev is just one of many former Soviet Oligarch families with a big influence on the Conservative Party and British oligarchs. More of our Russian interference coverage here https://bylinetimes.com/byline-times-box-sets/box-set-on-russian-interference/
