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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox and Kate Devlin

Starmer and Lammy warned not to repeat Chamberlain’s mistakes in Munich over Ukraine

A former foreign secretary has warned Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy that they must use this weekend’s Munich defence and security conference as an opportunity to stand up to Donald Trump over Ukraine.

Tory grandee Sir Malcolm Rifkind raised the spectre of the infamous 1938 Munich conference, where the then British prime minister Neville Chamberlain struck the “peace for our time” deal with Hitler and allowed him to invade Czechoslovakia.

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