Cobra meetings at dawn, secure lines to Biden, anti-tank missiles and Partygate fury - how the ex-PM and his team faced up to Putin's brutal assault on an ally 🔎Big Read by HugoGye
came as a shock but not a surprise to the British Government, after weeks and months in which Boris Johnson and his ministers had repeatedly sounded the alarm over the Kremlin’s intentions.the main preoccupation of No 10, MPs and the media had been “Partygate”
The number of meetings on how to combat the threat posed by Putin had quietly increased from the end of 2021 onwards, including internal discussions onMr Johnson visited Poland, Estonia and Ukraine for talks with central and eastern European leaders who – like the UK – were deeply worried about the Kremlin’s intentions at a time when other high-profile figures such as French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz were playing down the likelihood of an invasion.
Mr Johnson’s supporters argue that his proactive approach to the conflict helped ensure that Ukraine had the equipment, such as NLAW anti-tank missiles, that it needed to hold back Russia’s troops and ensure the assault on Kyiv was a dismal failure. Dominic Raab had been removed as foreign secretary after that debacle and replaced by Liz Truss. A source who worked with her said: “Liz and the team were pretty well prepared, they were expecting it and everything sprung into action right away.”
The civil servants and political advisers in the building were equally discombobulated following an internal overhaul which had seenjust a few weeks earlier.Tory MPs, including those who were sceptical of Mr Johnson and concerned about the political fallout of the Partygate row, expressed relief that the plot against him had failed. One said at the time: “If the letters had gone in and he had lost a vote of confidence, we would be in a leadership election now and that is mad.
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