Latest updates: foreign secretary denies claims Boris Johnson is reluctant to push Moscow harder and says further sanctions are ‘in the locker’

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I wanted us to lay out very clearly that there would be serious repurcussions. I felt that we needed to blacklist all Russian state banks, all Russian banks in fact. I want us to ban the City from servicing any Russian state companies, and that includes the accountants and the lawyers. I wanted a far broader sanctions regime, and it does sound like that’s going to be coming forward, so I really welcome the fact that, clearly overnight, we’ve seen from the government a plan to ratchet this up.

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