Putin made him a member of the Order of Alexander Nevsky and president of his Diplomatic Academy. You misunderstand how spies succeed if you take the thought away that Johnson is a Russian stooge. If you want the concise reason why Johnson won’t release the Commons intelligence and security committee’s report on Russia, this is it. Harding reveals that May and Johnson ran as far as they could from Christopher Steele’s evidence of Russian support for Trump in 2016. Johnson, Cummings and Gove did not need Russia to tell them to break up the EU.

Source: The Guardian June 27, 2020 18:00 UTC