Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

This week, the UK and other allies say Russia was responsible for poisoning Alexei Navalny two years ago

as the Munich Security Conference shines

a spotlight on the fraught relationships between Europe, the US and Russia.

Two years on from the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the UK and other European nations have released a joint statement,

saying that Russia used a toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs to kill Navalny.

On Sky News this morning, Foreign Secretary of Etcouper told Trevor Phillips

that only the Russian regime could have administered the poison.

Can we start with this extraordinary report of the killing of Alexei Navalny?

It can't be a surprise that the Kremlin stands accused, but the Russian embassy this morning,

I don't know if you know this, is calling your report a nonsense, quote, a mockery of the dead,

quote, and describing you and other Western politicians as, quote, feeble-minded fabulousists.

What's your response?

Well, we have worked for the last two years since the announcement of Alexei

Nevartle's death and the announcement that took place here in Munich two years ago.

We have worked with

our European partners on pursuing the evidence and pursuing the truth. And that is why we have

together found the evidence of this lethal toxin that was found in Alexei Navalny's body at the time

he died.

And only the Russian regime had the motive, the means and the opportunity to administer this lethal poison while he was in prison in Russia.

They wanted to silence him because he was a critic of their regime.

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