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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Starmer backs Zelensky after Trump calls Ukrainian leader ‘a dictator’

Sir Keir Starmer backed Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call on Wednesday after Donald Trump claimed the Ukrainian president was “a dictator without elections”.

In the call, the Prime Minister gave Mr Zelensky his support “as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader” and said it was “perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War Two”, according to a Downing Street spokesperson.

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