Good morning. It's Majid Nawaz here on LBC, sitting in for James O'Brien and leading Britain's

conversation. Stay with us. We're moving to the issue of infrastructure and food dependency as it

becomes a sticking point in our Brexit negotiations with Michel Barnier, the EE chief negotiator.

After that, we'll be speaking about land of hope and glory

and rural Britannia is our understanding of British colonial history in need of slightly more complex

understanding. But first up, it is the topic around poisoning of dissidents in Russia.

Boris Johnson has called on President Butoon to explain the outrageous poisoning of the Russian

opposition leader,

Alexei Navalny, with Novichok. So what should be done about Russian poisoning of political dissidents?

Yesterday, the Prime Minister earned himself a follow on Twitter from me. Now, that's not saying

much. He doesn't need me to follow him. He's got, I tell you, 2.9 million followers. However,

I tend to follow people I either find newsworthy or really interesting, and I found him neither

up until he started speaking in this way. The tweet I'm going to read for you directly.

It's outrageous that a chemical weapon was used against Alexei Navalny.

We have seen firsthand the dead sequences of Novichok in the UK.

The Russian government must now explain what happened to Mr. Navalny.

We will work with international partners to ensure justice is done.

Now that, I reply to, a bit tongue in cheek, obviously, that earned you a follow.

But the point is incredibly powerful from the Prime Minister, a statement there on Russian

poisoning of dissidents. Why is that important? Let us not forget that not only has this

happened to Mr Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader. It's been happening to dissidents

all over the world where the Kremlin believes it has absolute ownership over Russian citizens,

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