Labour’s strange bedfellows in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Carl Thomson looks at the parliamentary assembly in the Council of Europe to discover that whilst Conservatives sit with Putin’s centre right United Russia in the Council, Labour, by contrast, has allied itself with a party led by a man who is not averse to using his fists to resolve political disputes, and a group which was shut down for having views too nationalistic even for the Kremlin’s taste. He asks if the GPS on Gordon Brown’s moral compass has stopped working in Russia?