Britain Vows Retaliation if Russia Poisoned Former Spy<br />By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAMARCH 6, 2018<br />LONDON — Calling Russia "a malign force around the world," Britain’s foreign secretary on Tuesday vowed retaliation if investigators find<br />that Moscow is behind the apparent poisoning of a former Russian intelligence officer and his daughter in southern England.<br />But, speaking in the House of Commons, he noted the widespread speculation<br />that Russia was to blame and "the echoes of the death of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006." Mr. Litvinenko, another former Russian agent, was fatally poisoned in London, and a British investigation concluded that he had been killed on orders from the Kremlin.<br />officer who was poisoned with polonium, a radioactive element — a death<br />that the British investigation later said was probably approved by Mr. Putin — and about reports that a number of people at odds with the Russian government had died in Britain under murky circumstances.<br />"The specialist resources that sit with the counterterrorism network<br />that I coordinate across the country and other partners are working with Wiltshire police to get the bottom of it," Mr. Rowley, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, told BBC radio.<br />Mr. Johnson said that Should evidence emerge that implies state responsibility, then Her Majesty’s government will respond appropriately and robustly,
