Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mark Rutte of the Netherlands will visit Downing Street today for talks about the international response to the Ukraine crisis, as the UK government is criticised for moving too slowly on sanctioning oligarchs
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will lay out amendments to the bill which are intended to lower the legal and procedural threshold for"designating" an oligarch and should allow ministers to act faster.
Labour has argued the Conservatives have given oligarchs a"get out of London free" card by not introducing a register of Mr Putin-linked property fast enough.
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