Rounding on Russia

Determined diplomacy has shored up the PM, says Matthew Partridge.

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Theresa May is looking prime ministerial
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"There is nothing quite like standing up to a foreign bully to enhance a leader's domestic reputation," says Philip Johnson in The Daily Telegraph. Theresa May, "in pulling together a co-ordinated international response to President Putin's recklessness" by getting "some 30 countries to agree to withdraw diplomats", is "outstanding". She now appears "substantially more prime ministerial". Her actions also send a clear message that Putin's "revanchist inclinations will be resisted". What's more, "the danger of the UK being left isolated, thereby tempting Putin to go further and risking a military collision", has been "averted".

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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