PMQs Live – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Will there be a review?

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Rayner asks why we don’t have details of a meeting between the PM and Evgeny Lebedev that happened two days after the security services advised that Lebedev should not get a peerage.

Raab says people get nominated for peerages for their contributions and many Russians contribute brilliantly to society.

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Rayner asks Raab if he overruled security service advice at any time when he was the foreign secretary (and in charge of MI6)

Raab calls it nonsense and he never over-ruled the security services.

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe review

Angela Rayner asks for a review of the handling of the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case, and whether Boris Johnson’s comments about her as foreign secretary made the situation worse.

Raab says sole responsibility for what happened to Zaghari-Ratcliffe rests with Iran.

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