Urgent Question: David Lammy MP on Wagner Group in London

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Parliament
Lammy MP claims
Government is allowing a Wagner person
to be protected from a UK Journalist.



Government says no


[Wagner Group Sanctions Urgent Question
House of Commons

An urgent question in the House of Commons,
tabled by shadow foreign secretary David Lammy,
on reports that the UK government assisted
Wagner group head Yevgeny Prigozhin
in circumventing sanctions.]

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can't see the wagner group getting many supporters in the uk

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They own London Buildings


[the UK government assisted Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin]

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Labour MP Hodge

says one is selling Bentley cars


The Minister is not permitted to talk
on Sanctions

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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/250ab8fa3aed480932d717d9d5c96d01d9391e88/0_0_3500_2494/master/3500.jpg?width=620&quality=45&dpr=2&s=none
Prigozhin (left) assists Vladimir Putin during a
dinner with foreign scholars and journalists
outside Moscow in November 2011.
Photograph: Reuters

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[Yevgeny Prigozhin: the hotdog seller who rose to the
top of Putin’s war machine

After nearly a decade in prison,
the Wagner group founder’s ascent
was extraordinary.
But where does the ceiling of his ambition lie?
Some of those who knew him
describe his path to power]


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/24/yevgeny-prigozhin-the-hotdog-seller-who-rose-to-the-top-of-putin-war-machine-wagner-group

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The Urgent Question has ended