labour will back it in a vote tomorrow, but wants ministers to reduce how long overseas owners have to register their assets. the government initially said, well, we ll give people 18 months to register. the government s retreated because of our arguments and said, well, six months. but six months is still more than enough time to sell property here in the united kingdom. so, tomorrow, we want to push them further to say reduce that down to 28 days, make it a really effective sanction so that we can put maximum pressure on russia. borisjohnson will host the prime ministers of canada and the netherlands in downing street tomorrow to discuss further international action to support ukraine and isolate russia. but this morning, there are questions about his role in the admittance of a russian born newspaper owner to the house of lords. the sunday times claims that, in 2020, british intelligence assessed that giving a peerage to evgeny lebedev posed a national security risk. the paper s
is there any compromise that you can see? i pray that we can have peace. but it s difficult to see would ve compromise that would look. like there s questions in the sunday times about afghani this is a newspaper owner. son of a former kgb agent. raise questions about. it s also come out that, back in 2013, mi6 refused to meet him. this is a man he obviously denies that he s a security have raised concerns about. is the prime minister behaved a bit foolishly, to say the least? i don t think so. i ve met him, as the prime minister, has at no point did anybody ever say that they would be inappropriate to meet him, and to talk to him. none of those concerns are passed on? even in 2013, the sunday times believed that they were passed on to people around bars johnson? nobody has said it to me.
hedge fund. which is a misnomer because it doesn t wound an animal under water. this is author of one of my favorite books the wirnldness: deep inside republican party s combative quest to take back the white house. mckay, tell us about all den global and their reach. this is a hedge fund that owns over 200 newspapers in america today. it s actually the second largest newspaper owner by circulation in the country. by all indications, it s aiming to continue to expand its empire. what makes allden so strange is it s extremely secretive. if you go to its website, it has no information beyond its name. the cofounders of the hedge fund almost never talk to the press.
what do we know about her and that relationship. so ghislaine was the perfect front for jeffrey epstein. very well educated, went to oxford university, very clever, was the daughter of robert maxwell, very famous newspaper owner and businessman in brittain who died in very peculiar circumstances, disappearing off his yacht named after his daughter, it was called the lady ghislaine. a lot of people thought her relationship with jeffrey epstein was about money. after her father died he was discovered to have been a fraudster. there was a disgrace and one of her brothers went to prison. but jeffrey epstein paid for ghislaine to have the kind of lifestyle that she had grown up and was accustomed to. the question is what did she do
corruption probes. one of the allegations is he offered regulatory benefits to executives for better media coverage. he also allegedly offered help to a newspaper owner in exchange for better media konch and allegedly accepted $280,000 worth of champagne, cigars and other gifts. the media embraced it and the police fell into their trap. you can see how the police are being led by the media and the left. sound familiar? here s another one, every half leak immediately becomes the main headline and a public indictment. the public understands that there is a witch hunt which you have undertaken for the past 22 years. democracies are messy. a free press and opposition figures, this is the kind of thing that happens. in other countries it doesn t happen, you know why? if it s erdogan and turkey and what have you, they crack down