These pathetic sanctions won’t hurt Putin. He’ll be laughing all the way to his dacha | Chris Bryant

Boris Johnson promised a tough response. Instead there is a weak and chaotic reaction offering too little, too late

Well, blow me down with a feather duster. That’s basically what the government has announced today: we are going to blow Vladimir Putin down with a feather duster.

These aren’t meaningful sanctions. They are the bare minimum of what we should have done weeks ago, when Putin first announced that he did not respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine. They are not a proper response to Putin’s declaration of independence for Donetsk and Luhansk and his sending in of troops. I don’t doubt that Putin is laughing his way to his dacha. His mocking sidekick Dmitry Medvedev said as much yesterday.

Chris Bryant is the Labour MP for Rhondda and a member of the Commons foreign affairs select committee

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