Starmer flies off to the US to give money & escalate the war
Sir Keir is in Washington for talks with US President Joe Biden on Friday, as allies of Kyiv discuss giving Ukraine permission to fire their missiles at targets inside Russia.
This will be seen as an escalation by Putin. He told Russian state television that this would “mean nothing other than the direct participation of NATO countries – the US and European countries – in the war in Ukraine.”
Alongside the license Starmer will be pledging to give more financial support to Ukraine specifically at a time when the UK is cutting winter fuel payments to grandparents in the UK.