THE British government campaigned and spent more than £20,000 to force Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a Declassified UK investigation has revealed.
Declassified UK analysed Foreign Office documents as well as the recently published diaries of former Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan, who was a key player in negotiations around Mr Assange.
In March 2018, then-prime minister Theresa May was told to “butter up” Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno in order to get Mr Assange expelled from the embassy, where he was living at the time, the analysis found.
Later in the year, Ms May’s government spent £12,806 to bring Ecuadorian officials to Britain.