May's modest response to Skripal attack will not deter Russia | Luke Harding

Expulsion of diplomats is a temporary setback but the PM might have done moreTheresa May had promised a robust response to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. But in the end the prime minister’s measures against Russia, unveiled to the House of Commons on Wednesday, were modest – at “the very low end of acceptability”, as one former Foreign Office adviser put it.True, the UK is expelling 23 Russian diplomats from London. All of them are professional s