Two years on from the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the UK has released a joint statement with Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands, declaring that Navalny was killed by Russia with a poison found in Ecuadorian dart frogs. On Sky News this morning, Trevor Phillips told Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper that the Russian embassy had described the report as a ‘mockery of the dead’, made by ‘feeble minded fabulists’. Cooper said the UK and its allies had been pursuing the truth for two years, and had found evidence of the toxin in Navalny’s body at the time of his death. She claimed Russia had wanted to ‘silence him’, and that only Russia could have administered this toxin while Navalny was imprisoned in Siberia. Cooper quoted Navalny as saying that truth is ‘the most dangerous weapon of all’, and said the UK government would spread the truth in place of Navalny.

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The High Court has ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action under terrorism legislation was ‘disproportionate’ and unlawful, in a blow to the government that could lead to the collapse of hundreds of prosecutions against protestors who supported the group. On Sky News, Trevor Phillips asked Yvette Cooper what........

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