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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

No time for niceties: David Cameron in hurry to make mark on world stage

David Cameron stands at a podium
David Cameron in Poland on Thursday, where he repeated references to the appeasement of Hitler when discussing Putin and the war in Ukraine. Photograph: Piotr Molęcki/East News/Rex/Shutterstock

A day after the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene declared “David Cameron can kiss my ass” over his references to the appeasement of Hitler in an article appealing to US lawmakers to pass a Ukraine funding bill, the UK foreign secretary returned to the theme.

Stood alongside his Polish counterpart, Radosław Sikorski, another experienced politician recently recalled to high office, he said: “Today, two foreign ministers stand here just like in the 1930s, when we faced a similar challenge in the case of an aggressive dictator who tried to change the world by force and ignored the sovereignty and inviolability of other countries’ borders.”

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