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The leaders meet in Washington to discuss the ongoing situation in Ukraine and the potential end to Russia’s military action

Triumphant CDU leader hits out at Washington and calls for stronger European security amid attempts to build government.

By refusing to back negotiations for the past three years, the UK has become irrelevant to the search for peace – we must change course, says crossbench peer Robert Skidelsky

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The Tory leader will advocate a ‘need to disengage’ from international bodies if they are ‘taken over by activists or by autocratic regimes’

The Tory leader will also advocate a ‘need to disengage’ from international bodies if they are ‘taken over by activists or by autocratic regimes’.

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Sir Keir Starmer has previously said that he would be willing to put British troops on the ground as part of security guarantees.

Mr Hunt said the UK raising defence spending to match the US relative to GDP would secure the future of Ukraine and of Nato.

The PM will not and should not pick a fight with the president. But it is his duty to go there upholding British and European values, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is expected to travel to the United States on Tuesday for talks in Washington with her counterpart Marco Rubio as US president Donald Trump continues his push with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end Russia's three-year war in Ukraine.