Britain Holds Back From Escalating Reprisals On Russia After Salisbury Poisoning

Britain has held back from an immediate escalation of the round of tit-for-tat reprisals with Russia in the wake of the Salisbury poison attack.But Prime Minister Theresa May told a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) that further measures were under active consideration and she was ready to deploy them “at any time”.There had been speculation that the NSC might agree new retaliatory measures, after Moscow’s response to the UK’s first round of sanctions went fu