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Live News,04 Dec 2025,29 mins

Putin Poisonings

Newsnight

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Vladimir Putin was ultimately responsible for the 2018 Salisbury poisonings that killed Dawn Sturgess, a public inquiry finds. The man who led the UK police counter terror response tells Newsnight that Britain is no safer now. And on the eve of a comeback ¬- on our screens at least - by the UK's shortest serving prime minister we hear from Liz Truss's former deputy.

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