Hand Holding: Zelensky May Receive Escort from Macron and Starmer on Next White House Visit
Perhaps eyeing the chance for another incident the British and French leaders may offer to accompany Zelensky to Washington next time.

Perhaps eyeing the chance for another incident the British and French leaders may offer to accompany Zelensky to Washington next time.
British defence minister will travel to Washington this week for talks with Pete Hegseth to advance work on peace in Ukraine.
Politicians in Britain and Europe flew into a complete meltdown after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a suspension of American aid to Ukraine, with some going so far as to suggest the leader of the free world is a “traitor” and a “Russian asset”.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing questions about his pledge to deploy boots on the ground and planes in the air over Ukraine when the UK Armed Forces has seen the number of soldiers dwindle to the lowest since the Napoleonic era.
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky shot down the prospect of agreeing to an immediate ceasefire with Russia despite his country being on the back foot after three years of war with a much larger adversary.
Britain and France will work to craft a Ukraine ceasefire deal that would be presented to the United States, UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer said ahead of a Downing Street summit on Sunday.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday and told him he had the nation’s unwavering support a day after the blowout at the White House with President Donald Trump.
The British minister responsible for international development quit Friday in the wake of boosted defense spending.
WASHINGTON – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised President Donald Trump for creating an opportunity wherein a peace deal is possible in the Russia-Ukraine war.
President returns to jocular mood after Ukrainians agree to sign his deal, laughing off his having called Zelensky ‘dictator’ last week.
President hailed “wonderful” UK as he received invite for unprecedented second state visit, the first leader to ever be extended courtesy.
PM immediately offered Zelensky affirmation over his democratic status after Trump blasted Ukraine for cancelling its elections.
Nearly half of German voters support Berlin deploying troops as part of a broader peacekeeping force in Ukraine after a potential Trump-negotiated settlement between Kyiv and Moscow.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has cemented its lead in the polls and has begun to pull ahead of the Westminster establishment parties, according to a survey from YouGov.
Keir Starmer will go to Washington next week to discuss a “wide range of issues”, a British government spokesperson confirmed on Monday.
Starmer declared willingness to deploy British troops to Ukraine “in harm’s way” to deter Russian aggression.
A family of six Palestinians from Gaza slipped through what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as a “loophole” this week and immigrated to the United Kingdom using a program designed for Ukrainian refugees.
The UK’s left-wing government, losing voters to the populist-sovereigntist Reform UK party, has launched a counteroffensive of tough talk on border control, yet boasts of rising deportations ring hollow when the bar is so low.
Reform leader gets unusually sympathetic treatment in newspaper profile, calls politicians “wankers” while expressing empathy for Starmer.
A group of Labour Party MPs have reportedly joined to pressure Prime Minister Keir Starmer to get tough on migration to prevent the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
The power of NATO to deter other states from aggression is in “doubt” because its members do not spend enough money on defence, Rutte warns.
The U.S. trade relationship with the UK “can be worked out” but the “atrocity” of Europe has made tariffs inevitable, he said.
British government can’t afford to fund its military to NATO standard demanded by Trump due to its dwindling economy, it is claimed.
Paul McCartney urged the British government not to make a change to copyright laws that he says could let artificial intelligence companies rip off artists.
Western nations deploying troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers would be “absolutely unacceptable to Russia”, their Foreign Ministry complains.
Talk about sending peacekeepers to Ukraine’s front lines welcome but won’t work without American boots on the ground, Zelensky says at Davos.
Several UK newspapers fell in step with PM deflection on Southport massacre, implying real problem facing country is Amazon selling knives.
The UK Prime Minister is “hiding behind the contempt of court argument” which is “simply untrue”, Brexit boss Nigel Farage says.
Heads of state around the world, from countries both friendly and adversarial to the United States, sent their congratulations to President Donald Trump on the occasion of his return to the White House on Monday, wishing him well during his second term in office.
UK says it will hand over a rapidly and secretly developed launcher which repurposes stocks of surplus air-to-air missiles to a ground role.
Left-wing-led govt responds to weeks of fury with promises of new inquiries, but critics say the moves amount to little more than a cover up.
A plurality of Britons, including Labour voters, believe that there was a cover-up of the grooming gang scandal.
British PM Starmer spoke of “unbreakable bond” as he made an unannounced visit to Kyiv to sign surprise 100-year military treaty with Kyiv.
A plurality of Britons think that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer should resign as over six and ten say that he is performing poorly in his job, surveys from YouGov found.
Britain’s anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq, whose aunt is the ousted PM of Bangladesh, has resigned while protesting her innocence.
Two Labour MPs who represent the child rape grooming gang hotspots of Rochdale and Rotherham have come out in favour of a national public inquiry as pressure continues to mount for Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer.
More polling shows Farage’s Reform is leaving the disgraced Conservative Party in its wake, coming just one point behind governing Labour.
Downing Street insisted Monday that Britain’s embattled Treasury chief will remain in office for the remainder of the left-wing Labour government’s term as Westminster speculation swirled about a potential change given the faltering UK economy.
A Labour Party MP has broken ranks with Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer to demand a national public inquiry into the child rape grooming gang scandal, arguing that the substantial public interest is not merely a fixation of the so-called “far-right”.
Over three-quarters of Britons support a fresh investigation into child sex abuse by what are called predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs.