Ready to work under trump's strong leadership
Here in the UK Downing Street says
prime minister sakir starmer spoke to president Trump last night before his
decision to Hal Aid the government here insists it is laser focused on securing
a lasting peace for Ukraine and wouldn't be derailed from those efforts
meanwhile the US vice president JD Vance has denied disrespecting British
forces in comments he made in a Fox news interview Vicki young has the reaction
from Westminster.
Commemorating the special British
prime minister and an American president side by side Roosevelt and Churchill
were allies in a war effort against a common enemy 80 years later k starma says
he has a good relationship with President Trump but influencing his decisions
is proving difficult what's your message to the Ukrainian front lines ministers
woked the news that the US had withdrawn military aid from
This is the moment Europe has
to go alone defense minister this was the government's carefully worded
response what the US government decides to do that's entirely their decision
but the UK and the prime minister is very clear on our support for Ukraine and
that we need that peace deal.
The president Trump has said that we
need the peace deal as well and we're focused on making sure we get that over
the line the conservative leader was more critical it was an incredibly
disappointing development I think it sends uh a signal to Vladimir Putin that
he is winning.
We need to remember who it is uh whose
side we're on that is President zinski we are not on the side of Vladimir
puting I believe that President zinski needs all the help he can get and that
does include American military aid Downing Street say the prime minister's been
in daily contact with President Trump recently but they won't say whether he
knew in advance about the announcement on US military aid to Ukraine it shows
the difficulties of dealing with.
This unpredictable American
Administration the vice president JD Vance has caused offence with his comments
about a potential European peacekeeping force in Ukraine the very best security
guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine that is
a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country
that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years he insisted later that he wasn't
referring to British troops but it's angered in Westminster it's quite clear
who his comments we referring to I think it's deeply disrespectful um to all
those who served in the British Arm Forces including myself and to those who
are serving currently and I think veterans across this country today will just
feel very upset with those um comments that he has made the prime minister is
keeping up the Diplomatic activity he spoke to president zilinski again today.
