Monday 28 July 2014
Nick Clegg joins calls for Russia to be stripped of 2018 World Cup over its role in MH17 disaster
‘Nick Clegg has joined calls for Russia to lose the right to host the 2018 World Cup as part of tougher sanctions over the shooting down of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.
The Deputy Prime Minister has said it was ‘unthinkable’ at present that the tournament could go ahead in the country blamed by the West for supplying arms to separatist rebels accused of causing the deaths of all 298 on board the Malaysia Airlines flight.
World football governing body Fifa has this week rejected calls from some German politicians for Russia to be boycotted.’
