Sir Keir Starmer has renewed his call for the US to provide a “backstop” security guarantee in Ukraine to deter Russia from invading again in the event of a peace deal between the two nations.
Speaking on his flight to Washington DC to meet president Donald Trump, the prime minister said “there is no issue between” the UK and US on Ukraine, despite the two leaders having appeared at odds in recent weeks over the role European nations and the US should play in any peacekeeping operation in Ukraine.