Julian Assange has reportedly hired a crack team of expensive lawyers as he prepares to fight extradition to the US tooth and nail. Assange was thrown out of his Ecuador embassy bolthole in London where he had been given refuge since 2012. But Miss Abbott and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have leapt to his defence, calling his arrest politically motivated. Critics queued up to accuse Miss Abbott of 'ignoring allegations of sexual violence' and even a Labour shadow minister branded her intervention 'disgraceful'. On Thursday Miss Abbott was asked three times about the sexual offence claims against Assange on BBC Radio 4.

Source: Daily Mail April 13, 2019 10:15 UTC