Johnson agrees Putin will use World Cup as Hitler used Olympics

Boris Johnson has waded into the diplomatic row with Russia over the poisoning of a former spy on British soil, agreeing that the way Vladimir Putin is using the World Cup in Russia as a “PR exercise” is comparable to how Hitler used the 1936 Olympics. For their part, the Russian foreign ministry invited all foreign ambassadors in Russia to attend a meeting in Moscow, where it accused Britain of “Russiaphobia” and having an “island mentality”.