Just a couple of UK / GBP related posts to come following the blink-and-you'll-miss-it Australia leadership spill distraction
This via Reuters:
- Britain's foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, will say that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the world "a more dangerous place", and that after a chemical weapons attack in England, the EU should apply more pressure to ensure Russia sticks to international rules.
- "Today the United Kingdom asks its allies to go further by calling on the European Union to ensure its sanctions against Russia are comprehensive, and that we truly stand shoulder to shoulder with the US," Hunt will tell an audience in Washington in his first major speech since his appointment in July.
- Britain, the EU, and the United States blame Russia for a nerve agent attack against a Russian double agent in the English city of Salisbury earlier this year. The Kremlin denies involvement.
