Ford: ‘Ministers aware of their responsibilities to safeguard national security’

In an urgent question, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper asked foreign minister Vicky Ford to make a statement on prime minister Johnson admitting he met Alexander Lebedev without officials.

Ford assured MPs that “ministers are aware of their responsibilities to safeguard national security”.

This was a claim rejected by Cooper, who told the House of Commons that this admission “does to the heart of national security”.