Foreign secretary to be interviewed on the morning shows after UK and other countries accused Kremlin over Putin critic’s death
Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. The British foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is speaking to Sky News this morning, a day after the UK said the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin administered by the Russian state two years ago.
The assessmnet was made from the foreign ministries of the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands after analysis of material samples found on Nalvany’s body.
The European countries said they were reporting Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for a breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
In February 2024, Navalny, who was a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in a remote Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges that were widely seen as politically motivated.
