Meeting with Alexander Lebedev in 2018 when Johnson was foreign secretary occurred during ‘weekend-long party’ in Italy
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Boris Johnson has admitted for the first time that he met ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev at an Italian palazzo without officials present in April 2018, when he was foreign secretary.
The prime minister told MPs that he had “certainly met” Lebedev, also the former owner of the Independent, acknowledged that the meeting took place privately, and, after a pause, said the encounter took place “in Italy as it happens”.
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