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Salisbury attack: Boris Johnson accused of misleading public by claiming scientists identified Russia for nerve agent poisoning
Foreign Office under fire after deleting a tweet stating Porton Down had concluded the novichok used in the attack was ‘produced in Russia’
Boris Johnson has been accused of misleading the public by wrongly claiming
Porton Down experts had identified
Russia as the source of the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning.
The foreign secretary came under pressure as it emerged the Foreign Office also deleted a tweet stating that scientists had concluded the
novichok used in the attack had been “produced in Russia”.
In fact, as the Porton Down chief executive acknowledged on Tuesday, the defence laboratory had been unable to pinpoint the “precise source” of the deadly agent.
The tweet – which the Foreign Office admitted did not “accurately” reflect the information it had received – was published on 22 March.
Around the same date, Mr Johnson gave an interview to Deutsche Welle, the German broadcaster, in which he was asked how the UK had been able to determine so quickly that the novichok came from Russia.
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Boris Johnson is supposed to represent Britain on the world stage, but time and again he has shown he is unable to do so responsibly.”
Meanwhile, an embarrassed Foreign Office blamed the mistake on it tweeting a briefing given by the UK’s Ambassador to Russia “in real time” for the blunder.
Jeremy Corbyn added to the criticism of the foreign secretary, telling Sky News: “
Boris Johnson has some very serious questions to answer.
“He claimed on German television that this was a Russian-produced nerve agent and Porton Down then examined it and said all they could identify it was as novichok.
“They couldn’t say where it came from, and the chemical weapons organisation is meeting to continue that discussion about where it goes from here.”
