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Paragraph three is the most important one. Also the one which is already being ignored by the, "Ah, so Jeremy was right!" brigade.

Pretty dishonest initial headline which only serves to incite the conspiracy brigade

Interesting. Doesn't say it's Russian. Shit, what if they are telling the truth. Guess SIS got a source to say it was. Just like Americans did with Curveball before Iraq war. That was lies as we all know.

Seems not many are reading the last part of the statement. It's not their job to say where it was made. And so the whole media circus goes round again on the headlines alone. #PortonDown

Explain threshold for "military grade" thanks

For so long it was "Only Russia could make the stuff" P.Down implies cd be made in LOTS of places

It’s a complete mess, Porton Down against foreign sec’s word, sounds like govt keen to push that there is hard evidence against Russia, when it’s a logical conclusion instead

I’d read this to mean that the analysis has confirmed the class of compound, but not the specific agent. It would therefore be impossible to state where it was synthesised.