international security program at the center of strategic and international studies, and lieutenant colonel collins. i m curious what you think happens from here. i want the play the thoughts of bill browder who helped pass the sanctions law against putin allies and has become a target himself of putin. have a listen. i want to get your reaction. in my opinion, the only way that putin can stay in power is for him to reassert his authority and the only way to do that is to become extremely aggressive, dangerous and violent toward all sorts of people here doesn t believe are loyal to him. so i think there will be a huge sort of purge, crackdown, whatever you want to call it, of the elite. of the government, the military, of the oligarchs for putin to reestablish his authority. do you see that here? an almost soviet style purge to come? yeah, i think that is a
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way. we have a global financial sector full of russian banks, russian money, russian investment. therefore we have to lead the way. and when you look at the water numbers, the government will argue yes, however, the government has put out there that the oligarchs is a measure. and that measure is what is leading the way. when you say, well who else is ahead of us as it were? well, the union and the u.s. was moving faster on individuals. i think the government here have realized that they ve tied themselves up in knots with their sanctions law. but in the case where they re freezing bank assets and other parts of infrastructure, the uk is definitely taking a lead. do you think that the situation that you have described, at some level, we are lagging behind others, would have been an
system and dollars we attribute to iran, can you be sure that the money will not be directly or indirectly be used for something else. frankly no. we can be sure that that particular 394 million pounds which i think is the sum of money will itself only be spent on legitimate purposes, which is consistent with sanctions law. so i think from that point of view, it s okay, but it has never realistic to say to a government, to give back its own money, after paying a ransom, this is their money, their debt, the money that the british government owed them, that we are going to be able to determine exactly how you spend your own money. so there s a limit to how realistic those constraints are. peter, fascinating stuff. thank you for taking the time to ex plain to us this morning. much appreciated. thank you. oochs. appreciated thank you oochs. . joining us is labor mp as well, janet daily, hello to you janet. thank you so much for taking the time to join us this morning.