When Keir Starmer meets Donald Trump in Washington next week, I’m told he will tell the president that the US can achieve much more working with its allies than it can alone.
The prime minister will reassure Trump the UK will boost its defence spending. He will define what he meant by the US needing to be a crucial “backstop” for European forces to safeguard a ceasefire or peace deal in Ukraine – probably air support, intelligence, satellite communications and reconnaissance, but without US combat troops (even if European forces were killed by the Russians).
