One of the tensest experiences that Baroness Sugg had as David Cameron’s head of operations was at a lunch with President Putin in Moscow and not because she feared the salt and pepper had been replaced with polonium and novichok. It was her job to extract the PM so they could meet human rights activists before flying home. “I’m pretty sure the Russians knew what we were doing so they were very keen to keep us at this very long lunch,” she tells the What Were You Thinking podcast. The tactic they employed was to use our soft power against us and get the Russian Symphony Orchestra to play music by the Beatles, so that it would be an insult to leave. “Every time ISponsored

Source: The Times May 24, 2021 22:52 UTC