It is hard to see just how Boris Johnson has got in this mess. Did Foreign Office diplomats advise the foreign secretary that his call for sanctions on Russia would be accepted by the G7? The foreign secretary publicly pushed the plan for sanctions “on some of the Russian military figures who have been involved in co-ordinating the Syrian military efforts” on his way into the G7 summit in Italy yesterday. Along with Italy, today they appear one of the main reasons that the sanctions plan failed. The German foreign secretary Sigmar Gabriel, left, and the US’s Rex Tillerson leave Boris Johnson stuck in the middle at the G7 roundtable talks ReutersFellow foreign ministers…

Source: The Times April 11, 2017 15:56 UTC