Putin and the Kronsteen fallacy

It’s all too easy to ascribe the capabilities of Russia’s best chess players to its secret services. But consider a radical possibility: the latter have messed up.

WATCH: Chakrabarti — Corbyn’s tone on Russia has been “robust and measured”

She implies that it has also been “spun” by the media, however.

WATCH: Johnson — work is “going on now” regarding any people here with Kremlin links who have “obtained wealth by corruption”

The Foreign Secretary responds to questioning about UK sanctions against Russia and Russians.

WATCH: Lewis says May is doing “absolutely the right thing” in response to the Skripal poisonings

The Conservative Party Chairman says the public can “draw their own conclusions” about Corbyn’s approach, however.

Iain Dale: Corbyn’s weakness on security should cost Labour the next election. Will it, though?

A tour de force from May. Utter failure from Labour’s leader. And: how Blair’s Iraq legacy gives credence to deranged conspiracy theories.

May has given Moscow a deadline – she must enforce it with unmistakeable firmness

The British Government needs to show the same resolve as in 1971, when Sir Alec Douglas-Home threw 105 KGB agents out of London.

WATCH: “Highly likely” Russia was behind the Salisbury nerve agent attack, May tells the Commons

The Prime Minister reports that the Foreign Secretary has summoned the Russian ambassador to account for his country’s actions.

Iain Dale: Davis’s message to the EU should be: we’re not Greece – and won’t be treated like Greece

Plus: Henry Bolton, secret LibDem agent. (Or not.) Penny Mordaunt, next Tory leader. (Or not.) British communists surprise us. (Or don’t.) And: my CNN joy.

Williamson’s verdict at Westminster, not attempted murder in Salisbury, is our best guide to responding to Putin

Last month, he told the Defence Select Committee that Russia has ousted terrorism from the top of the national threat list – which has big spending implications.