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UK ministers are preparing to unveil new sanctions against Russia, eight days after the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal that threatens to bring relations between the two countries to crisis point.

Boris Johnson, foreign secretary, and Gavin Williamson, defence secretary, who have emerged as the government’s most hawkish voices on Russia, are both in favour of financial and other sanctions against Moscow in response to Mr Skripal’s poisoning.

-- ft.com

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