Corbyn Is Russia's ‘Useful Idiot’ in Spy Case, Johnson Says
- Labour Party hits back, saying Johnson misled British public
- Russian ambassador seeks meeting with U.K. foreign secretary
Former Russia Spy No Longer In Critical Condition
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Jeremy Corbyn is playing “Putin’s game” by lending false credibility to Russian propaganda that it has nothing to do with the poisoning of a former double agent on British soil, U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Sunday.
The opposition Labour Party leader has reverted to a “comfort zone” of “infantile leftist background of sympathy for any country, any movement, however unappealing, that is hostile to Britain,” Johnson wrote in the Sunday Times. “Truly he is the Kremlin’s useful idiot.”