Does Rishi Sunak care about Ukraine?

I’m told that these days you can still buy pastries which look like Boris Johnson, or drink beers with Boris Johnson’s face on the label, in Kyiv. There is even a Boris Johnson street somewhere in southern Ukraine. Though it has been described as ‘nondescript’ it’s still a sign that Britain’s early support for Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, lives on in the imagination of many Ukrainians.    

The tragedy is that those with the greatest ‘imagination’ about the subject are probably in the UK itself.   

For all the triumphalism, back-slapping and self-congratulation, the UK is one of the least generous supporters of Ukraine in all of Europe. As a percentage of GDP, the UK has been a veritable minnow in the European sea, with its combined military and economic support for Ukraine totalling 0.45 per cent. Only military superpowers like Ireland at 0.38 per cent and Switzerland, at 0.3 per cent of GDP, have given less, while many states in the Baltics, Nordics and Central/Eastern Europe, with whom Britain likes to pretend it makes common cause, have given three or even almost four times as much of their GDP.