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‘Is that it?’: Seven reactions to Johnson’s sanctions that are tougher than the measures themselves

The sanctions suggest the Government "cares more about protecting Tory party donations and London’s laundromat", Caroline Lucas said.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2022-02-23 07:47
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Boris Johnson has been urged to impose tougher sanctions on Russia as the Foreign Secretary said the Government was already considering a number of further measures to stop Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Ukraine.

The Prime Minister is likely to come under fire in the Commons on Wednesday over the punishment doled out to Kremlin-linked oligarchs and banks in response to Russian aggression.

Writing in The Times Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, said she had held a call with G7 allies to “agree the next package” of sanctions, while No 10 insisted there was more to come if Russia did not back down from manoeuvres in eastern Ukraine where troops had been sent into the Donbas region under the guise of being “peacekeepers”.

Billionaire allies

But the PM faced criticism from all sides for not going far enough when he announced his clutch of measures on Tuesday.

He had announced that three billionaire allies of the Russian President and five Russian banks would face punitive measures.

Similar sanctions have been announced by allies in the European Union and the United States.

Calls have also been held between UK ministers and their counterparts in Baltic states which may feel under threat by Russia’s actions, as the US sent troops already stationed in Europe to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in what was called a “defensive” move.

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BREAKING: The UK is sanctioning 5 Russian banks (Rossiya Bank, IS bank, General Bank, Promsviazbank, Black Sea bank) and 3 oligarchs: Igor and Boris Rotenberg, and Gennadiy Timchenko. Pretty tepid if you ask me. The oligarchs have been on the US sanctions list since 2018

— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) February 22, 2022

“Gruel”

But the British sanctions offering was branded as “gruel” by the Liberal Democrats’ Layla Moran, while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said “we must be prepared to go further”.

Former Tory foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt warned that “Putin will have predicted and discounted western sanctions long ago, so does he (Mr Johnson) agree that if we are not to be behind in the diplomatic chess game, we need to do some things that he is not expecting?”.

Tobias Ellwood, Conservative chairman of the Defence Committee, said: “Sanctions alone will not be enough, indeed untargeted sanctions may play into Putin’s plan to pivot Russia ever closer to China.”

Conservative former minister Mark Harper asked for assurances that Boris Johnson will implement “further and stronger measures even if President Putin does no more”.

In the Lords, former Navy chief Lord West of Spithead said the UK and US should be preparing to make Putin’s “eyes water”.

The Labour peer, a member of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, said Putin had “made a calculation the pain isn’t that much and I have to say at the moment I would rather agree with him. He’s not getting that much pain”.

Social media reaction

Reaction on social media has been similarly fierce.

Here’s what people had to say:

Is that it?

Sanctioning 5 banks and 3 oligarchs suggests the Government cares more about protecting Tory party donations and London’s laundromat than it does about imposing meaningful sanctions against Moscow#Ukrainecrisis

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) February 22, 2022

Scholz – after not declaring how hard he’d go, immediately pulls plug on Nordstream 2. Johnson – after talking tough for days, makes sure none of his Russian donors, tennis auction partners and ennobled sons of KGB hit by painfully weak sanctions. Reckon 🇷🇺 has something on him?

— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) February 22, 2022

That’s a sanction… not 3 people and 5 Banks🙄 https://t.co/KvUT96JllB

— Deborah Meaden 💙 (@DeborahMeaden) February 22, 2022

Our sanctions against Russia have two very clear aims – to maintain the flow of Russian cash into the Conservative Party and to maintain the flow of Russian cash into the Conservative Party.

— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) February 22, 2022

Depiction of the sanctions Boris Johnson has placed on the Putin regime: pic.twitter.com/BRoWMCS6zz

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 22, 2022

‘I’ve placed sanctions on three tuna fish’ pic.twitter.com/rPlQB4ZUaO

— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) February 22, 2022

Downing Street announce further sanctions on Russian state including reducing the maximum number of library books they can borrow from ten to six.

— Michael Glasper (@michaelglasper) February 22, 2022

Related: Police partygate questionnaire leaked

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