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Abbott: UK cannot be Russian 'killing field'
Diane Abbott says there are "striking similarities" between the collapse of Sergei Skripal and the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning.
The shadow home secretary said she did not want to "default to a red menace analysis" but that the government cannot allow "London and the Home Counties to become a killing field for the Russian state."
(Photo: Diane Abbott, credit: Getty Images)
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