Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis in exchange of views with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Latest Nottingham Forest news as Reds owner Evangelos Marinakis exchanges views with former PM Boris Johnson

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis (Image: PA)

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has been involved in a frank exchange of views with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The duo attended the Economist Impact Fifth Thessaloniki Metropolitan Summit in Greece this week. The Thessaloniki summit was entitled ‘South-East Europe as a bridge of co-operation and growth’.

Greek businessman Marinakis and Johnson discussed the war in Ukraine. A clip showing a debate between the pair subsequently emerged on social media.

Politics Global posted the video on their X account and it has garnered more than 3.5 million views. Marinakis and Johnson had differing views over how to end the war.

In an exchange relayed by Metro, Marinakis said: “What I would prefer is for children to stop dying and let Russia keep some of this (Ukraine’s) territory and stop this war. That’s a fair compromise. Let’s stop the war.”

In response, Johnson suggested such a course of action could be seen as ‘weak’. He stated: “If we are weak now, we will pay for it later on.”

The discussion between the two men comes during a pause in action for the Reds due to the international break. Marinakis had been in attendance at the City Ground for Forest’s 3-0 defeat to West Ham United last time out.

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