Russian officials involved in corruption and human rights abuse are to be targeted with a tough new sanctions regime co-ordinated with the US and Canada, the Telegraph can disclose.

Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, and Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, have agreed that Britain will introduce a UK version of the so-called "Magnitsky Act" under which 49 Russian nationals are named in an official US list of "gross violators of human rights", whose crimes include extrajudicial killings and torture.

The move, which was being planned before last week's poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in Salisbury, is likely to inflame tensions with Moscow, following the nerve-agent attack government figures believe points to Russian involvement.

Vladimir Putin has personally railed against similar legislation introduced in other countries, even imposing a retaliatory ban on American adoptions of Russian children after Barack Obama introduced the US version of the legislation.

On Saturday night senior Conservatives campaigning for the move said ministers had agreed to implement "Magnitsky amendments" into the Sanctions Bill currently in the Commons.