This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government
Rejected petition Boycott the FIFA World Cup in Russia and withdraw the England team.
The Russian state has assassinated people on British territory. Alexander Litvinenko was proved to have been poisoned with radioactive polonium by Russian agents.
There are numerous other deaths in the UK with links to the Russian regime including the recent nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal.
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A foreign state deploying radioactive and possibly chemical weapons on British soil should not be tolerated. The UK should withdraw from any events hosted by such a criminal regime.
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