The British government actively supported a plan to lift EU sanctions against Bashar al-Assad’s London-based fixer, it emerged in today’s Times.
An odd move, you would be forgiven for thinking, since it seems at direct odds with the government’s otherwise robust rhetoric about clamping down on associates of the brutal Syrian regime. Could this be another example of the UK government preaching a tough response to a foreign power publicly, yet following a less hardline approach privately?
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