{"id":1408089,"date":"2022-03-29T16:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408089"},"modified":"2022-03-29T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:45:36","slug":"businessman-lebedev-says-uk-security-advice-about-him-should-be-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/businessman-lebedev-says-uk-security-advice-about-him-should-be-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman Lebedev says UK security advice about him should be public"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbusinessman-lebedev-says-uk-security-advice-about-him-should-be-public%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408089&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-29T150615Z_1_LYNXNPEI2S0T8_RTROPTP_0_BRITAIN-ENTERTAINMENT_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Media mogul Lebedev attends the Evening Standard Theatre awards in London\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Media mogul Evgeny Lebedev attends the Evening Standard Theatre awards in London November 30, 2014. REUTERS\/Neil Hall\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Evgeny Lebedev, the ennobled British-Russian media boss and son of a former KGB spy, said on Tuesday security advice relating to Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s decision to appoint him to parliament\u2019s upper chamber should be publicly released.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has come under political pressure over his friendship with Lebedev and the opposition Labour Party won a vote on Tuesday to demand the release of information about the businessman\u2019s appointment to the House of Lords.<\/p>\n<p>Lebedev, who owns the London Evening Standard and Independent newspapers, was made a lifelong member of the Lords in July 2020 with the title Baron Lebedev of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), which scrutinises nominations, asked Johnson\u2019s office to reconsider his appointment after hearing evidence from Britain\u2019s security services that Lebedev, was considered a potential security risk, according to the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson subsequently met Lebedev and asked for further assurances from the security agencies, which provided enough further context to satisfy him, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lebedev said the claims about his background were \u201cpure innuendo\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpenness and transparency are pillars of our democratic system, so I welcome the call for security advice about me provided to HOLAC to be released,\u201d he wrote on Twitter. \u201cI have nothing to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson earlier this month denied that he intervened to secure the appointment and Lebedev said that he was \u201cnot some agent of Russia\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>After governing Conservative lawmakers did not take part in a vote, a motion was passed in parliament calling for any documents held by the Cabinet Office or the prime minister\u2019s office about the appointment to be published by April 28.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, said there remained a lack of transparency around Lebedev\u2019s appointment, while Cabinet Office minister Michael Ellis suggested the opposition party was anti-Russian.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the debate, Lebedev tweeted a text message from Labour leader Keir Starmer in which he had congratulated the businessman on his appointment to the Lords, saying he had done so \u201cin the spirit of transparency\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Andrew MacAskill; editing by Michael Holden and Sandra Maler)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Media mogul Evgeny Lebedev attends the Evening Standard Theatre awards in London November 30, 2014. 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