Sanctions

It comes as Sir Keir Starmer is in Estonia for a meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF).

The Government has appointed an anti-corruption champion as it seeks to make UK a ‘hostile environment for the corrupt and their ill-gotten gains’.

It is the first Treasury-led domestic counter-terrorism sanction relating to terrorism in the north

Lord Lamont of Lerwick warned that a rival payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ if it ever came to pass.

Lord Cameron disclosed he had been working on a plan to sanction finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

A woman once dubbed ‘Africa’s richest woman’, and an oligarch who extracted hundreds of millions of pounds from Ukraine, are among those sanctioned.

Iran’s national airliner and a shipping company are among the latest entities facing British sanctions.

The Hungarian leader said the EU’s sanction regime ‘should be reviewed, because with such a policy of sanctions, energy prices will not come down’.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the sanctions ‘build on the UK’s mission to combat Russian malign activity globally’.

The military government of Myanmar, which took power in a coup in 2021, has used ‘increasingly brutal tactics’ to shore up its position.