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Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said that, to guarantee the security of Ukraine, he was ‘ready and willing’ to put ‘our own troops on the ground if necessary. I do not say that lightly’. Parliament would be allowed a vote on such a deployment, the government said. Earlier, Sir Keir took an unannounced telephone call from President Donald Trump of America about their forthcoming meeting. Afterwards, Mr Trump said: ‘We have a lot of good things going on. But he asked to come and see me and I just accepted his asking.’ The Chiltern Firehouse hotel in Marylebone burnt down.
The Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, the most senior judge in England and Wales, said she was ‘deeply troubled’ by comments made by Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions over a judge’s ruling in an immigration case, which allowed a Palestinian family into Britain though they had originally applied under an arrangement for Ukrainians. In the week to 17 February, 339 migrants arrived in small boats; one died in a swamped boat off Calais. Scottish jails began to release 390 prisoners early in the face of overcrowding. A 32-storey tower being built at 85 Gracechurch Street in the City of London will be modified to display underground remains of the Roman basilica discovered there.
The annual rate of inflation rose to 3 per cent in January, from 2.5 per cent a month earlier. The annual rate of pay rises in the last quarter of 2024 was 2.5 per cent, after inflation, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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