After proposals were mooted for a special conference in London this week and a meeting between Wes Streeting and Pete Hegseth, it won’t go ahead. A defence source told Nick Watt:
“The UK remains committed to protecting freedom of navigation and safeguarding commercial shipping across the Gulf region. The Defence Secretary has been having constructive discussions with allies on diplomatic and military efforts to strengthen maritime security, and these will continue in the coming days.”
Streeting did have a call with Pete Hegseth and the French Armed Forces and Veterans minister Catherine Vautrin yesterday. What’s going on with Streeting’s “charm offensive”?
UPDATE: MoD insists the meeting can’t have been cancelled because it was never formally scheduled and there were only “lots of discussions” around it.
Boris spoke to GB News about Labour’s attempts to restrict donations:
“It looks absolutely pathetic. Just because some people want to support one party very generously, Labour kicks up a huge fuss and says they’re going to cap donations.
I just saw Richard Tice on your show just now. I have to say I rather agree with him.
They’ve got huge amounts of money – troughing it from the trade unions. It’s absolutely ridiculous Labour are trying to cap donations.”