It’s time for Keir Starmer to make his move. Britain’s prime minister has spent months carefully crafting a chummy relationship with Donald Trump. He has showered the US president with flattery since even before his November election win;

Keir Starmer has warned that Vladimir Putin could invade Ukraine again if the US does not provide security guarantees for Europe. The Prime Minister is en route to Washington for a key summit with Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday,

If there is a cease-fire without a backstop, it will simply give him the opportunity to wait and to come again,” Keir Starmer warned on the flight to Washington, D.C.