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Lammy admits Trump can veto Chagos deal ahead of White House confrontation over islands

Foreign secretary’s admission comes as The Independent has discovered the President has been handed a second legal dossier on why the deal should not go ahead

The Independent UK

Chagos deal will not go ahead if Trump rejects it, Lammy says

The Foreign Secretary said he still believed the agreement to cede the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius was the ‘best deal’.

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on Starmer in Washington: don’t compromise on the truth

Editorial: The prime minister must handle Donald Trump with tact, but without flinching from a duty to confront falsehoods in the president’s worldview

The Guardian - UK

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Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit UK this weekend

UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to come to the UK this weekend, the PA news agency has reported ...

The National (Scotland)

Cutting aid to buy arms won’t make the UK safer

Letters: Readers express dismay at the government’s decision to cut the foreign aid budget to pay for increased spending on defence

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine’s Zelensky plans to visit UK this weekend

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is due to host a summit of European leaders to discuss defence.

Evening Standard

Scottish Government hits out at Keir Starmer cutting aid budget

The UK Government’s decision to cut aid spending has been branded “deeply disappointing” by Scotland’s External Affairs Secretary.

The National (Scotland)

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Starmer pressed in the Commons to secure release of British-Egyptian activist

Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been detained in Egypt since 2019 and was sentenced to five years in prison in 2021 after being accused of spreading fake news.

Evening Standard

Labour must turn 'warm words' on climate crisis into 'real action', warn Greens

THE Labour Government has been urged to turn “warm words” into greater action on the climate emergency by the Scottish Greens after a report…

The National (Scotland)

Russia accuses UK and France of ‘heating up’ Ukraine war amid defence push

The accusation comes as the Prime Minister flies to the US to meet Donald Trump after promising a dramatic increase in defence spending.

Evening Standard

Starmer accused of defence spend ‘cover-up’ in row over how £9bn Chagos deal is funded

The PM said the uplift would boost ‘our capability on defence and security in Europe’, but stopped short of ruling out using defence cash to fund Chagos deal

The Independent UK

Starmer doesn’t do performative politics. When he faces Trump, that will be an advantage

The PM will try to persuade the US president that what is in Europe’s and Ukraine’s interest is also his best bet, says Keir Starmer’s biographer, Tom Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

No question of paying any paramilitary group to disband, says Hilary Benn

Sir Keir Starmer also told the Commons he is ‘committed to making progress towards ending paramilitaries once and for all’.

Evening Standard

Sunak calls for targeted national screening programme for prostate cancer

The former prime minister said thousands of lives could be saved as a result of targeted measures.

Evening Standard

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Salon

America's allies adjust to abandonment

A mournful requiem for the great post-war alliance

Evening Standard

Starmer declines to say whether defence spending increase includes Chagos cash

The Prime Minister described the deal being negotiated with Mauritius as ‘extremely important for our security’.

The Guardian - UK

Mother of Egypt detainee ready to end hunger strike if UK makes progress

Laila Soueif was hospitalised for low blood sugar this week as she tries to secure release of son Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Evening Standard

Donald Trump says Europe must guarantee Ukraine security not US in blow to Keir Starmer before Washington talks

Prime Minister hopes to convince US president to provide security ‘backstop’ at crunch meeting in Washington - as Trump says Ukraine can ‘forget about joining Nato’

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The Conversation

Trump and Europe: US ‘transactionalism on steroids’ is the challenge facing leaders now

Donald Trump has always been an avowed transactionalist rather than a transatlanticist. The author of The Art of the Deal made it clear during his first term as US president that he thought Nato was a bad deal for the US. He publicly berated European allies, notably Germany, for not…

Evening Standard

Defence spending numbers defended by Starmer amid ‘silly games’ criticism

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch pressed the Prime Minister in the Commons over the spending increase and his plan for Ukraine.

The Conversation

Starmer announces aid cuts to fund defence – but Britain’s days as an aid superpower are already long over

Keir Starmer’s announcement that the UK will cut foreign aid in order to fund more defence spending seems like smart politics. With the US’s commitment to European security in question, it is clear that European countries, including the UK, need to spend more on defence.

The Guardian - UK

No 10 talking to ex-Boris Johnson aide Munira Mirza about multiculturalism

Contact could unsettle some in Labour given her past record on the issue including criticism of Lammy report

The Guardian - UK

What will Keir Starmer try to achieve during talks with Donald Trump?

British prime minister heads to Washington as Europe reels from seismic shift in relations with US president

The Independent UK

More than 1,000 British staff cut from key Ukraine troop training programme

Exclusive: As of January, there were just 369 UK staff working on the British-led programme that has trained over 51,000 Ukrainian soldiers to resist Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion

Top News

Britain To Increase Defense Spending, Cut Foreign Aid Budget

British PM Keir Starmer plans to boost defense spending amid US-Europe rift over Ukraine, cutting foreign aid to fund increase.

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