36 h. ago Still uncertain about Trump? Let Boris Johnson guide you on this ‘very compassionate man’ | Catherine Bennett

Some of the president’s Tory fans seem to find the grim reality of the president’s actions invigorating rather than terrifyingShort of emigration, what is the best option for Britain’s dazzled Trump followers now their hero confirms he is not Europe’s ally but Vladimir Putin’s? That’s assuming what we can’t in the case of Nigel Farage MP: that they do not share the US president’s well-documented weakness for a genocidal invader. Even his more respectable British acolytes have until recently finessed, quite successfully, their love of Trump with his long history of Putin-pleasing. No one more so than Boris Johnson, former prime minister, self-styled saviour of Ukraine and still Trump’s most dependable British idiot.To Johnson’s way of thinking, detailed in numerous Daily Mail columns, it is Trump-doubters who are always the ridiculous, panicking, hysterical, whingeing headless chickens. When Trump looked likely to win the US election, Johnson likened the reaction of the “western libe...

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3 d. ago Putin ally says UK will have to return Russia money that London has 'illegally' gifted to Ukraine

Putin ally says UK will have to return Russia money that London has 'illegally' gifted to Ukraine  Reuters

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5 d. ago Minister ‘pushing for peace’ in Middle East attended jazz club event, MPs hear

MP Ellie Chowns was told Middle East minister Hamish Falconer did not reply to her urgent question as he was ‘in the region pushing for a peace deal’.

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5 d. ago Tories push for answers after Labour minister claimed to be in the Middle East 'pushing for a Gaza peace deal'... was photographed on stage at London's iconic Ronnie Scott's jazz club

Hamish Falconer, the Middle East minister, was photographed attended a swanky lunch event at Ronnie Scott's in Soho yesterday.

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5 d. ago Putin's closest ally says Russian dictator 'regrets' Ukraine war for 'unexpected' reason

Alexander Lukashenko, the premier of Belarus branded the "last dictator in Europe" suggested Vladimir Putin was not expecting the pushback in Ukraine that led to a full-scale war

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6 d. ago European weapons companies share prices rocket after UK and France push for Ukraine peace deal after Trump disaster

Donald Trump risked disturbing his relationship with global US allies when he claimed Ukraine is 'not ready for peace' after getting heated in a disaster meeting with president Zelensky.

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7 d. ago Weapon company stocks soar after Starmer says Europe faces era

Share prices rose nearly 20 per cent in Britain’s biggest weapons maker, BAE systems, mid European push to support possible Ukraine peace deal

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7 d. ago US 'in secret talks with Putin ally to restart Nord Stream 2 pipeline' two years after it was blown up in sabotage attack

The talks aim to rescue the controversial undersea pipeline which funnels Russian gas to western Europe. It once symbolised Europe's energy reliance on Russia before being sabotaged in 2022.

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7 d. ago UK and France aim for new Ukraine peace deal as Macron pushes for initial 1

London and Paris pursue European plan after Zelenskyy’s furious encounter with Trump

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7 d. ago Myanmar's head of military government travels to ally Russia for talks with Putin

The head of Myanmar’s military government is traveling to Russia, a major ally of the Southeast Asian nation shunned by much of the West for overthrowing a democratically elected government and subsequent brutal repression

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8 d. ago Europe has a lot to do before it can exert real influence on a Ukraine peace deal

The continent’s role in any ceasefire will be limited unless countries commit more to Kiev and the Zelenskyy-Trump relationship is repairedUkraine war: live updatesEurope and the UK are hoping they are on the brink of assembling a credible military coalition that Donald Trump can only refuse to support at risk of appearing openly to ally with Vladimir Putin – an alliance many grassroots Republicans reject.The plan is a long shot since it requires enough countries inside Nato to offer practical support to such a coalition of the willing, and also needs Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, to patch up his relations with Donald Trump following Friday’s Oval Office meeting. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Who is Denner Evangelista? Chelsea agree £11.5m transfer for next Brazil wonderkid

Blues strike latest deal as part of recruitment push for best young South American talent

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8 d. ago Putin ally pushes deal to restart Nord Stream 2 with US backing

Ex-spy Warnig’s plan to involve American investors shows breadth of Trump’s rapprochement with Russian president

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1 week ago Push for US trade deal to avoid Trump's tariffs hits roadblock: No10 insists UK WON'T accept chlorinated chicken and minister warns NHS is 'not on the table'

Donald Trump revealed that he hopes a 'very good' Transatlantic agreement might be sealed 'quickly' as the leaders struck up an unlikely 'bromance' last night.

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1 week ago Frantic push for a US trade deal to spare UK tariffs after Starmer's White House love

Donald Trump revealed that he hopes a 'very good' Transatlantic agreement might be sealed 'quickly' as the leaders struck up an unlikely 'bromance' last night.

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1 week ago Arsenal sporting director target spotted in London as they push for deal

Arsenal sporting director target spotted in London as they push for deal  Daily Cannon

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer to push Donald Trump on Ukraine peace deal during Washington visit

The Prime Minister is set to meet Donald Trump in Washington

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2 w. ago Vladimir Putin's key ally brags despot is directly behind Donald Trump's stance on Ukraine

US President Donald Trump appeared to lay blame for the war entirely with Ukraine and has spoken favourably about Russia and how the Kremlin is approaching the negotiations

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's former national security adviser brands Chagos Islands deal a 'travesty' and warns about threat from China if Keir Starmer pushes ahead with ceding sovereignty

Herbert McMaster, a retired US Army lieutenant general, said handing the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius would be a 'significant strategic disadvantage'.

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3 w. ago PM says Europe must ‘step up capability’ as he attends Ukraine talks in Paris

The meeting comes as Europe’s leaders scramble for a strategy in response to US President Donald Trump’s push for a deal with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

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