THERESA MAY kicked off a dramatic week on March 12th with her Commons statement on the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia by a powerful nerve agent in Salisbury, a quiet cathedral city. The prime minister pointed her finger directly at Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, saying that either the Russian state had sanctioned the attack or it had lost control of a deadly poison. She gave the Russians until the end of the following day to produce an explanation before she concluded that Britain had been the victim of "an unlawful use of force".
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