Prime minister confirms meeting with Alexander Lebedev in Italy in 2018 when he was foreign secretary
Boris Johnson has admitted for the first time that he had 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, and acknowledged that the meeting took place privately, and, after a pause, said the encounter took place “in Italy as it happens”.
