Dispatches Season 2023 Episode 5 - Boris, the Lord and the Russian Spy: Dispatches

Airdate: 2023-Jun-27

Episode summary:

The full story of Boris Johnson's friendship with press baron Evgeny Lebedev and his former KGB spy father, Alexander Lebedev. Including exclusive interviews with intelligence officials and senior political figures who warned the former Prime Minister against the friendship, knowing it would put him `in a direct line of being able to be influenced and compromised". Despite being told by both Britain's security services and the House of Lords Appointments Commission that the friendship was dangerous, Johnson ignored this advice and became the first Prime Minister to over-rule intelligence advice related to national security for a parliamentary nomination.

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