over information to the british authorities about russian agents in europe and has been exposed rey mysterioho had been helping the west, sergei skripal was one of those people who was exchanged and therefore came back to the uk after being convicted of spying for britain and russia. this has echoes of the alexander litvinenko case, as far as we understand it. let‘s talk about likely uk government reaction and what the uk government could do if it were to be found that this were the case that the russians had involvement? this is a fascinating step change in terms of the way the british authorities have responded. if you look back at the litvinenko case in 2006, police took a firm line and the government accused the kremlin of orchestrating that hits. it was a very obvious assassination, there was a radioactive trail left all across london by the assassins who poisoned alexander litvinenko with polonium. there have been more deaths connected to the russian state in britain since then, the british police has treated them all was not suspicious after what intelligence service tellers is a desi