Starmer has been updating the Commons on Ukraine-related foreign policy developments this afternoon including discussions over increased support for the country and the PM’s vague ‘Coalition of the Willing.’ £1.6 billion in extra cash for air defence missiles and British army boots on the ground are so far proposed…
Nigel Farage put a simple question to Starmer in the Commons today, asking Starmer how many British troops would actually be sent to Ukraine, given the size of our Army. Starmer refused to answer the question:
“[The minerals deal] not enough on its own. But can I just remind him that Russia is the aggressor, Zelenskyy is a war leader whose country has been invaded, and we should all be supporting him, not fawning over Putin.”
Starmer did say earlier in the Commons that UK is “nowhere near” the stage of MPs voting on a deployment of British troops to Ukraine. While briefing journalists today Starmer’s spokesman was unable to say what the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ would look like, if there will be anything to sign onto in order to join it, or what it will end up doing in particular. Number 10 has played down French suggestions that proposals for a month-long test ceasefire for energy, air, and sea is the preferred plan. Heavy on the rhetoric so far…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”