The report was billed as a potential blueprint for the first term of a Labour government.
Then Prime Minister Theresa May said the two suspects had arrived at Gatwick Airport from Moscow on 2 March, travelling as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.The pair - later identified as Russian intelligence officers Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin - were spotted on CCTV in Salisbury the day before the attack.
The two men returned to Moscow on the evening of 4 March.President Putin denied any involvement and, where they insisted they had visited Salisbury as tourists who wanted to see the cathedral spire.
Downing Street dismissed the Russian response.Another Russian agent, Denis Sergeev, who had been in London under the alias Sergey Fedotov,
When someone dies in an unexpected or suspicious way, a coroner's inquest is often set up to establish the circumstances which led to the death.
But the previous inquest into Ms Sturgess' death was converted into an independent inquiry to allow it to have access to secret intelligence, some of which will be considered in private.And it was seemingly caught off-guard by the disruptive impact the Republican-backed programme of relocating migrants to Democratic-run northern cities would have on government services far from the border.
Shortages in Covid tests and infant formula, a dramatic increase in the price of eggs, the end of Roe v Wade abortion protections, and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza – for every seemingly unanticipated fire the Biden administration addressed, two new ones would emerge.The challenges were, in fact, daunting – ones that felled incumbent leaders in democracies around the world.
But for Biden and the Democrats, hoping to prove that they were a competent and effective counterpoint not just to Trump but to global authoritarian regimes, the stakes were high.Amid all of this, responses from the administration were sometimes glaringly off-key. When asked during a television interview about raising oil production in America to reduce gas prices, in November 2021, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm responded with a laugh.