Why did it take two weeks to sanction Abramovich?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 140 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Good morning. It's three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:34.7 | Let's just recap, shall we, upon the situation regarding sanctions. It is two days |
| 0:39.4 | since the Foreign Secretary Liz, I tell a lie, three days it was on Monday, since the Foreign |
| 0:43.5 | Secretary Liz Trust repeated a briefing that had been punted out by Downing Street about a week ago, |
| 0:49.1 | that the reason why they couldn't sanction Russian oligarchs on the sort of scale that was needed was because of, and they even use this word in the briefings given out to friendly journalists, |
| 1:01.1 | remainer members of the House of Lords complicating the sanctions legislation during post-Brexit debates and post-Brexit redrawing of bills. |
| 1:13.6 | I know we're running out of space to list all the evidence of the disingenuousness and downright |
| 1:20.5 | deceit that's punted on a daily basis by this government. |
| 1:23.6 | But Liz Trust sat in front of the select committee on Monday and claimed that they couldn't sanction people like Romana Bramovich and Oleg Deripaska. |
| 1:32.2 | I don't know whether they were cited specifically because their hands had been tied by remainer members of the House of Lords complicating the legislation that was necessitated by the Brexit that was, of course, championed by |
| 1:46.5 | Vladimir Putin and Russian oligarchs in this country, including one who owns newspapers. |
| 1:54.4 | Four minutes and remains unsanctioned, of course. Four minutes after 10 is the time. So that's |
| 1:58.8 | part of the backdrop to what we've heard today. The other |
| 2:01.8 | thing that we need to bear in mind at this point is that the reason why sanctions have been |
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