I doubt much will change in London over the long term.
Johnson and his government are doing with the Ukraine/Russia issue what they have done on virtually every other topic: talk loudly and carry a very small stick. They have made some grand statements about punishing these oligarchs, while moving at a glacial pace, so as to allow these oligarchs to liquidate as much as possible and flee.
I think, once the war in Ukraine is over (please God that's soon), the next Tory government (it's always the Tories!) will simply revert to type, take money from the Russian oligarchs who still want access for their kids to schools such as Eton, Harrow, etc. and allow the laundering to continue.
As long as the Murdoch press continues to misinform the British public on these issues, Johnson and his Tory ilk will have enough air cover to continue allowing these oligarchs to finance their party (political), their parties (social), and further corrupt the entire political system (see "Lord Lebedev").
The assumption you’re making is that they soak up liberal values and not just lucrative training and connections. I’d be interested to see if anyone has compiled any evidence one way or the other, but at the very least we, in liberal democracies, should consider it an injustice to allow someone who has imprisoned and tortured their own citizens and pilfered their own country to use their ill-gotten gains to buy the most elite educations available. Spots not even within grasp of the vast majority of English or Americans in their own countries. I’m an American and I’d never even have a dream of attending an Ivy League, yet Xi Jinping’s daughter went to Harvard and Carrie Lam’s son is a postdoc at Stanford right now. Surely all these tyrants’ children aren’t the smartest, highest IQ students by coincidence, actually deserving of the spots. They’ve been able to buy their way in with blood money, and we should look at look at institutions that enable that with shame and disgust.
From my experience of easier European background living in London most of the kids who are indoctrinated will just stay in London completely cutting off their parents in the end. But they will not change that country for the better.
Having gone to school with a number of their “elite”. On the whole, They don’t integrate and are never indoctrinated into western values. They’re there for the education and london.
Johnson and his government are doing with the Ukraine/Russia issue what they have done on virtually every other topic: talk loudly and carry a very small stick. They have made some grand statements about punishing these oligarchs, while moving at a glacial pace, so as to allow these oligarchs to liquidate as much as possible and flee.
I think, once the war in Ukraine is over (please God that's soon), the next Tory government (it's always the Tories!) will simply revert to type, take money from the Russian oligarchs who still want access for their kids to schools such as Eton, Harrow, etc. and allow the laundering to continue.
As long as the Murdoch press continues to misinform the British public on these issues, Johnson and his Tory ilk will have enough air cover to continue allowing these oligarchs to finance their party (political), their parties (social), and further corrupt the entire political system (see "Lord Lebedev").