Keir Starmer had his ‘good relationship’ with Donald Trump a few hours before the US president’s special envoy hit the PM’s Peace Plan of Ukraine as ‘an attitude and an attitude’.
Steve Witkoff said the idea of the labor leader of a peacekeeping force consists of the ‘coalition of the willing’ is based on a ‘simplistic’ idea to think ‘we should all be like Winston Churchill’.
In an interview with pro-Trump personality Tucker Carlson, Mr. Witkoff also praised Vladimir Putin and said he “held” the Russian president. “I don’t consider Putin a bad guy. He’s super smart, ‘he said.
Mr Witkoff leads the US ceasefire negotiations with Russia and Ukraine.
Asked about the plans to create a ‘coalition of the willing’ to provide military safety guarantees for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire. Witkoff said: ‘I think it is a combination of an posture and an attitude and a combination of a simplistic way. There is this kind of idea that we should all be like Winston Churchill. We did not have in World War II. ‘
In an interview with the New York Times Sir Keir, who was published hours later, from Mr. Trump said, “On a person-to-person base, I think we have a good relationship.” He added: ‘I like and respect him. I understand what he’s trying to achieve. ‘
He also revealed that the day of the disastrous meeting between the President Trump and President Zelensky in the Oval Office, who was the Ukrainian leader by his US hosts, that the United Kingdom was “under pressure to come out very critically, you know, flower adjectives to describe how others felt.”
Sir Keir added: “I thought it was better to pick up the phone and talk to both sides to get it back on the same page.”
Earlier, chancellor Rachel Reeves said she had “confidence” that the UK could avoid Mr Trump’s potentially devastating economic rates that would be imposed within days.
She did not exclude that she was changing or discarding a tax on technical companies to endure the extra costs on goods entering the US, which experts warned, could shrink the already shaky British economy.
And she said the president was ready to worry about countries that had a major trade deficit with the US, but insisted that the UK was not in that position.
