76 m. ago Keir Starmer 'engaging with key allies' at 'very serious moment' as he holds off criticising Trump for pulling US military aid to Ukraine

Keir Starmer is 'absolutely committed to securing a lasting peace' after the extraordinary announcement by the US president.

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8 h. ago Zelensky was 'cooked' moment Trump flashed this Sopranos signal, ex

Donald Trump may do business out of the White House and Mar-a-Lago but a move strictly out of the fictional New Jersey of TV classic The Sopranos he used to show Volodymyr Zelensky he was 'cooked.'

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23 h. ago Markets climb as defence stocks, euro and pound rally on Europe’s Ukraine peace push – business live

German stock market records biggest gains after Starmer announces ‘coalition of the willing,’ as investors expect big splurge in defence spending Eurozone inflation has dipped, moving closer to the European Central Bank’s 2% target, ahead of a widely expected drop in interest rates at the central bank’s meeting on Thursday.Headline inflation fell from 2.5% to 2.4% in January, while core inflation, which strips out volatile energy and food costs, dropped from 2.7 to 2.6%, Eurostat said this morning.After quite a strong January reading, February eurozone inflation came in soft. Core inflation ticked down after having been stable at 2.7% since September.The weak economic environment seems to trump an increase in reported input costs for the moment. For the European Central Bank, this is a dovish sign as the governing council mulls over how low it should bring rates. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Grim moment Volodymyr Zelensky's fate was sealed before outrageous Donald Trump meeting

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's heated White House exchange with US President Donald Trump has shocked the world, but it appeared to go downhill before he even stepped into the room

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64 h. ago Obama's political guru reveals the major moment from Trump's Zelensky meltdown that everyone missed

Veteran strategist David Axelrod revealed the 'very odd' moment during Trump's Zelensky meltdown that everyone missed.

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67 h. ago The moment Zelenskyy received standing ovation after Trump White House showdown

The Ukranian chief received a hero's welcome from soldiers and those who have fled the conflict

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3 d. ago European leaders rally behind Zelenskyy after stunning Trump clash – Ukraine war live

European leaders voice support for Ukrainian leader as US support for Kyiv hangs in the balance following disastrous meetingJD Vance was supposed to be the inconsequential vice-president.But his starring role in Friday’s blowup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy – where he played a cross between Trump’s bulldog and tech bro Iago – may mark the moment that the postwar alliance between Europe and America finally collapsed. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance

Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after MunichJD Vance was supposed to be the inconsequential vice-president.But his starring role in Friday’s blowup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy – where he played a cross between Trump’s bulldog and tech bro Iago – may mark the moment that the postwar alliance between Europe and America finally collapsed. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Watch the moment Donald Trump turns into a raging bully as he flips on Zelensky

Zelensky was reportedly asked to leave the White House early without a deal being signed after a war of words broke out with Donald Trump - who accused him of being 'disrespectful'

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4 d. ago Keir Starmer's incredible 'actually' moment IN FULL as he shuts down Donald Trump

Keir Starmer used a visit to Washington to press Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine as he looks to find a quick endgame to Russia's bloody invasion of its neighbour

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4 d. ago The defining moment between Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer that confirmed their blossoming 'bromance' as body language expert reveals how PM won over President

EXCLUSIVE: President Trump greeted Sir Keir with a warm smile and his signature thumbs' up outside the entrance to the West Wing. He also said he 'loved his accent and his impressive wife'.

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4 d. ago Moment Donald Trump opens 'truly unprecedented' letter from King Charles

Sir Keir Starmer handed Trump an 'unprecedented' letter from King Charles during a press conference with reporters at the White House - saying 'this is really special, this has never happened before'

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4 d. ago Trump awkwardly interrupts Musk to ‘let the cabinet speak for a second’ during administration’s first meeting

In an awkward moment in the Trump administration’s first cabinet meeting on Wednesday (26 February), President Trump interrupted Elon Musk, in attendance in an advisory role, in order to give his own answer to a reporter’s question.

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5 d. ago Moment Keir Starmer arrives in Washington for crunch talks with Donald Trump

Prime Minister Keir Starmer jokingly likened Peter Mandelson to Donald Trump last night at the British ambassador's residence in Washington.

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5 d. ago Russia could reinvade Ukraine without US security guarantees, Starmer warns

UK prime minister faces major diplomatic effort to get president on board after he said no plans for US ‘backstop’Keir Starmer has warned that Vladimir Putin could invade Ukraine again unless the US provides security guarantees as he arrived for critical talks with Donald Trump at the most precarious moment for European stability in decades.With the future of Ukrainian security hanging in the balance, he urged the president to commit a US backstop to a British and French-led peacekeeping force, saying it was the only way to avoid Russia plunging Europe back into war. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees | Stewart Lee

For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokeratiWas it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the hand of Trump: “I saw the moment the world’s wokerati had worked so hard to prevent.”I hope Johnson is pleased with the way things have worked out. Because now the foolish wokerati have been schooled beyond Johnson’s wettest dreams. It’s the Trump-Putin-bin Salman party! An adjudicated sex offender and convicted fraudster, and a man who sanctioned a chemical warfare hit, killing a British citizen on British soil, have met at the luxury Saudia Arabian hotel of another man, ...

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1 week ago Federal workers brace for more firings after judge lifts block on Trump administration job cuts – US politics live

Trump administration expected to continue its mass downsizing of the federal workforce amid warnings of unlawful terminations and a ‘monumental’ billMass firings could cause ‘monumental’ bill, say expertsWe expect Britain’s prime minister Keir Starmer to soon visit Donald Trump, at a moment when the American president is upending much of America’s foreign policy with his embrace of Russia’s position in the war in Ukraine. The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour looks at whether Starmer’s visit might reassure a rattled Europe:In November 1940, Winston Churchill sent a telegram to Franklin Roosevelt expressing relief both at the US president’s re-election and the victory of his anti-appeasement policy. “Things are afoot which will be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe, and in expressing the comfort I feel that the people of the United States have once again cast these great burdens upon you, I must now avow my sure faith that the lights by which we...

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2 w. ago This is Farage’s moment of reckoning: he can choose British voters – or Putin and Trump | Gaby Hinsliff

The Reform leader and Kemi Badenoch have struck the wrong alliances at the wrong time. Ukrainian sovereignty is a cause close to rightwing heartsTiming is everything in politics. So when the leader of the opposition realised she was due to be making a speech heaping praise on Donald Trump, just as the president plunged her own country into a national security crisis, you might think even she would have hesitated.But seemingly nothing can keep Kemi Badenoch from a culture war, not even the threat of an actual war. So, at a rightwing conference in London on Monday morning, she duly ripped into corporate diversity policies, climate activism, Keir Starmer taking the knee four and a half years ago, and various other imagined threats to western civilisation that are not forcing Britain to consider deploying troops against them, before concluding triumphantly that when people ask her what difference a change of leader makes, her answer is, “Take a look at President Trump.”Gaby Hinsliff is ...

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2 w. ago Cute moment Carolina Trump rides along with grandpa inside the beast before stealing the show at Daytona 500

The five-year-old could be seen in a white dress and 'Make America Great Again' cap, peering out at the audience alongside her beaming granddad, Donald Trump.

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