The move follows “unprecedented hostile actions by the British government, in particular the imposition of sanctions on senior officials of the Russian Federation,” the State Department said in a statement.
Scottish Prime Minister Nicholas Sterzon is also among 13 people banned from entering the country.
Other senior ministers include Dominic Raab, Grant Shapps, Kwasi Kwarteng, Nadine Dorries, James Heappey, Attorney General Suella Braverman and former Prime Minister Theresa May.
Whitehall sources said Prime Minister Liz Tras and Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace were likely to see this as a sign of their leadership’s success in cracking down on Russia.
They stressed that the UK sanctions against Putin and Lavrov meant that neither of them could travel to the UK.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said: “This step was taken in response to the unbridled information and political campaign in London aimed at isolating Russia internationally, creating conditions for restricting our country and strangling the domestic economy.”
He said that in the near future, Russia will expand the “stop list” of British politicians and MPs who “contribute to the spark of anti-Russian hysteria, pushing the” collective West “to use the language of threats in the dialogue with Moscow and shamelessly. inciting the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev. “
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The statement added: “In essence, the British leadership is deliberately aggravating the situation around Ukraine, using the Kiev regime as a weapon of mass destruction and coordinating similar efforts on the part of NATO.
“London’s incitement is also unacceptable, with strong pressure not only on its Western allies but also on other countries to impose large-scale anti-Russian sanctions, which, however, are irrational and counterproductive.
“The Russophobic course of the British authorities, whose main task is to incite a negative attitude towards our country, to limit bilateral ties in almost all areas, is detrimental to the well-being and interests of the people of Britain itself.
“Any sanctions attack will inevitably hit its instigators and they will receive a decisive repulse.”
The move by the Kremlin comes after the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on some of Russia’s banks, companies, oligarchs and will gradually phase out Russian oil imports by the end of 2022.
