JULIAN Assange is reportedly set to be evicted from Ecuador’s London embassy after six years of asylum, with Britain in high-level talks with the South American country.
Ministers and senior Foreign Office officials are said to be in discussions over the future of the Australian WikiLeaks founder, who has been confined to the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge for more than six years.
His refuge in the building has cost taxpayers millions of dollars since he fled there 2012.
The reports come a matter of weeks before Ecuador president Lenin Moreno’s scheduled UK visit, the leader renowned for disliking Mr Assange, having labelled him a ‘hacker’, an ‘inherited problem’ and a ‘stone in the shoe’.