There are many moving parts when it comes to ensuring peace in Ukraine.
Kielstama has to navigate some, including putting Donald Trump aside, as Europe scrambles amid declining US support for Ukraine.
Our political editor, Beth Rigby, spent the following the Prime Minister last week from the White House for a Trump conference to Lancaster House for a summit with European leaders.
Her analysis after the Prime Minister’s question this afternoon, she says that Ir Keel “eagerly avoided” any public criticism of Trump, or “more bizarre and controversial” that was said and made.
However, he began today’s session, explicitly remembering the British forces killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq following the 9/11 attacks.
It felt that after US vice president JD Vance, he said that Ukrainian peacekeeping forces would become “an army of 20,000 men from a random country that has not fought war in 30 or 40 years.”
Considering that Britain and France are the only two countries to publicly pledge peacekeeping forces, Vance’s comments yesterday were furious – though he claimed he had no mention of us.
Nevertheless, Beth has stated that the prioritized comments are “the prime minister trying to score points without directly criticizing them.”
People noticed yesterday that the UK came to US aid after 9/11, and Beth says the Prime Minister “we’ve seen what happens when he’s openly challenged, so we were trying to make that point and acknowledge it without going to the toes with President Trump.”
