Britain’s prime minister has no choice. In saying “I do not think the US is an unreliable ally”, Sir Keir Starmer is showing that hope is winning over recent experience. Whether he is being diplomatic, or naïve, will be put to the test when he presents a multinational plan for peace in Ukraine to Donald Trump.
Whatever the French and British-led multinational proposals are, they will have to avoid sliding into the death trap of a ceasefire.
