Russia bans UK PM, top Indian-origin ministers Sunak and Patel

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several top UK Cabinet ministers and politicians are banned from Russia for their “unprecedented hostile actions” of imposing sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, the Russian Foreign Minister said in a statement on Saturday. The full list of 13 British politicians on the so-called “stop list” issued from Moscow includes Indian-origin ministers –UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Home Secretary Priti Patel and Attorney General Suella Braverman –as well as Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and defence secretary Ben Wallace. “In connection with the unprecedented hostile actions of the British government, expressed, in particular, in the imposition of sanctions against top officials of the Russian Federation, a decision was made to include key members of the British government and a number of political figures in the Russian ‘stop list',” said the statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Other UK politicians on the “stop list” include UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Minister of Entrepreneurship, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng, Minister of Digitalisation, Culture, Media and Sport Nadine Dorries, Minister for the Armed Forces James Heappey, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, and Conservative Party MP and former British Prime Minister Theresa May.