UK to defend Ukraine peace deal with 'coalition of willing', Starmer says

Starmer: ‘Europe needs to step up on defence and security’

The prime minister has been visiting a defence company in Birkenhead - and we spoke to him about the relations between Britain, the US, and Europe.

Can the UK prime minister make liberal democracies great again?

There’s been some “great television” this past week for those who like to watch the end of the West. The US president and vice-president effectively sided with Russia in an attempt to bring the war in Ukraine to an end in a way that benefits a) the United States, b) the US president’s vanity, and c) Vladimir Putin. Starmer and post-Brexit Britain But every crisis also provides an opportunity. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, grasped the chan…

Has Starmer put Britain back on the world stage?

"It was the day Britain finally put Brexit behind it and assumed its new role in Europe," said The Telegraph's Europe editor James Crisp.On Sunday Keir Starmer hosted European leaders in London – with "nothing less than the security of the continent at stake". The prime minister proposed a "coalition of the willing", led by France and the UK, Europe's two nuclear and major military powers, and Germany, to protect Ukraine after a peace deal.In th…

Starmer may be a hero to Zelensky and EU leaders but he’s no hero to Britons

UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised billions in free weapons to Ukraine and increasing nuclear capacity to defend Europe, particularly Germany, which has not funded its own defence. Paul Sutton argues that Starmer's actions are driven by his faith in the "international order" and a desire to rejoin the EU, rather than…

Attitude Adjustment - LewRockwell

See if you can get this straight: So, Keir Starmer says: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wants to “put boots on the ground and planes in the air” in Ukraine so as to lead a “coalition of the willing” (NATO) against Russia. Sounds a little like the British PM is holding seances at No. Ten Downing Street to channel the spirits of bygone European leaders who launched doomed bear hunts into the vast and mysterious Eurasian e…

Can Keir Starmer trust his generals?

On 31 March 1982 Henry Leach, the First Sea Lord and the professional head of the Royal Navy, walked into a meeting in the House of Commons in an admiral’s full uniform. Tension was rising over the Falkland Islands, and the room in Westminster was full of ministers and civil servants anxiously trying to formulate a response. The prime minister asked Leach whether Britain could potentially retake the islands, which are 8,000 miles from the UK. Le…