Donald Trump’s decision overnight to pause US military aid to Ukraine has sent politicians across the world into a tailspin. Here in the UK, political leaders are still grappling with the fallout from Friday’s disastrous meeting between the US president and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Keir Starmer has pitched himself as a ‘bridge’ between the two sides but the decision to halt aid, along with an escalating war of words, highlights the limits of his role. Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch has a fight on her hands controlling her MPs as there appear to be a series of mixed messages coming from her shadow cabinet and party on Trump and Ukraine.
The Tory leader has today ordered her Chief Whip Rebecca Harris to warn Tory MPs against taking to social media to air their thoughts on the conflict.
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