Foreign secretary told MPs laws would be in place by 10 February but nothing has been put to parliament
The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, will meet her counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, Moscow on Thursday, although her plan to have passed the UK’s “toughest sanctions regime against Russia” in time for the trip appears to be in doubt.
Truss told MPs the laws would be in place by 10 February, but nothing has been put to parliament, raising suspicions among opposition MPs that government lawyers are struggling to frame the sweeping and unprecedented new laws.
