Trump answered questions last night in the White House ahead of today’s summit in Alaska. He said “President Putin would like to see a deal. I think if I weren’t president he would take over all of Ukraine. But I am president, and he’s not going to mess around.” Trump says the goal here is to “set the table” for another meeting with Zelensky and Putin…
The President added there is a “25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting.” Here are the timings:
John Healey has the morning round today and said “the pressure is on Putin. He’s declared four times in the last six months that he wants peace, but he’s been escalating the attacks on Ukrainian cities and killing Ukrainian civilians as well as attacking the military with thousands of drones each month launched into Ukraine. And so today is a day when really eyes are on Putin. Is he serious about what he says?” Keir ‘bridge to Trump’ Starmer will be looking on from Downing Street…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”