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Left to right: US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Kyiv. Credit: Leon Neal/PA Wire

UK will not be 'bullied by Putin' in talks over Ukraine long-range weapons

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves Downing Street, London, following a Cabinet meeting. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

The situation was far from sweetness and light back in 1997 - David Blunkett

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and Foreign Secretary David Lammy at the British ambassador's residence in Washington DC. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Vladimir Putin threatens war with Nato as Starmer backs Ukraine

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer shaking the hand of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. PIC: Richard Pohle/The Times/PA Wire

Britain’s ability to help Ukraine could be limited further - Patrick Mercer

Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walk out on stage together during a campaign event on August 6, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Kamala Harris faces difficult choices on Ukraine war if she beats Donald Trump

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally. PIC: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Political landscape about to change on both sides of the pond - Patrick Mercer

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Britain must continue to show leadership on Ukraine - Rishi Sunak

Luke Pollard is Minister for the Armed Forces. PIC: UK Parliament

The work of rebuilding the Armed Forces has begun - Luke Pollard

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer joins US President Joe Biden and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and other Nato leaders for a family photograph at the Nato 75th anniversary summit. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

NATO summit takes place against a backdrop of upheaval - Patrick Mercer

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington DC. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Joe Biden backs Keir Starmer's plan for new pact with European Union

Lord David Cameron meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine. PIC: Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/PA Wire

We should reevaluate our involvement in the Ukraine war - Yorkshire Post Letters

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a press conference. PIC: ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

There is a very real threat of nuclear war breaking out - Patrick Mercer

Veterans arrive ahead of a service of commemoration at Bayeux War Cemetery, for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

We must take inspiration from D-Day to meet challenges of today - John Healey

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow. PIC: ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images

Are cooler heads going to prevail in the Ukraine war? - Patrick Mercer

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron walks past a display of destroyed Russian military vehicles in Saint Michael's Square during his visit to Kyiv in Ukraine. PIC: Thomas Peter/PA Wire

Lord Cameron's words risk escalation in Ukraine war - Patrick Mercer

Ukrainian fast jet pilots watching a flypast at their graduation ceremony at the High-G training and test facility at RAF Cranwell. PIC: Andrew Wheeler/UK MOD Crown copyright/PA Wire

Where does the $61bn package from the US leave Ukraine? - Patrick Mercer

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of big businesses at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 24, 2022. PIC: ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images

How Russia is looking increasingly confident politically - Patrick Mercer

French President Emmanuel Macron, (right), and Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak shake hands during a joint news conference at the Elysee Palace last year. PIC: Kin Cheung - Pool/Getty Images

Incompetent Western intelligence has left Ukraine compromised - Patrick Mercer

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with President Volodymyr Zelensky at a signing ceremony during a visit to the Presidential Palace in Kyiv. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Where would a Trump victory leave the UK and Ukraine? - Patrick Mercer

US President Joe Biden speaks at an event with G7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. PIC: Paul Ellis/PA Wire

Ukraine continues to suffer as Democrats and Republicans bicker - Patrick Mercer

Jade Botterill, Labour candidate for Ossett and Denby Dale, visiting the Bier Huis in Ossett with Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds.

Labour's relationship with business 'has fundamentally changed'

Labour’s relationship with business has “fundamentally” changed since the party’s chastening defeat in the 2019 General Election, the party’s Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has claimed during a visit to Yorkshire.

Chris Burn

A photo issued by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) of Ukrainian marines being trained in the UK. PIC: LPhot Mark Johnson/UK MOD Crown copyright/PA Wire

Sinister strategic moves behind the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war - Patrick Mercer

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace during a visit to a British Army military base in the South West, to view Ukrainian soldiers training on Challenger II tanks. PIC: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Ben Wallace’s departure is a result of NATO’s utter impotence - Patrick Mercer

'Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has demanded firm commitments from the Allies about Ukraine’s future membership of NATO'. PIC: AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

Key few days ahead of NATO summit in Ukraine war - Patrick Mercer

Stena ferry

Stena Ferry: Police treating incident where two died as murder-suicide

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech via videolink at the opening session on the first day of the Ukraine Recovery Conference, held at the InterContinental London this week. PIC: Henry Nicholls/PA Wire

Military operations in Ukraine rest on upcoming NATO summit - Patrick Mercer

A man helps a woman evacuee cross a destroyed bridge as she and others flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022. Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images.

Nato needs to bang Ukraine and Russia's heads together - Patrick Mercer

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on prior a meeting with European Union leaders in Mariinsky Palace, in Kyiv, on June 16, 2022. Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images.

In the the Ukraine-Russia war, the next weeks will be decisive - Patrick Mercer

NATO countries reach ‘agreement’ for Ukraine to become member state says secretary general

NATO allies ‘agree’ Ukraine will become member state

Finland joins Nato: What country is and isn’t a member state including Ireland, Sweden & Turkey

Finland joins NATO: What country is and isn’t a member state?

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping make a toast during a reception following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21, 2023. PIC: PAVEL BYRKIN/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images

China-Russia alliance most dangerous since the Second World War - Patrick Mercer

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)

Column: Andrew Jones MP - Facing issues on a very different scale

​Sometimes as an MP a moment happens that you will never forget; that brings into sharp perspective the problems and difficulties we face.

Zoe Drye

Russian jet intercepts and collides with US drone over Black Sea after dumping ‘environmentally unsound’ fuel (Credit: Getty Images)

Russian jet intercepts and collides with US drone over Black Sea

Russian jet intercepts and collides with US drone over Black Sea after dumping ‘environmentally unsound’ fuel (Credit: Getty Images)

Russian jet intercepts and collides with US drone over Black Sea

Defence Minister Ben Wallace swears live on BBC Breakfast

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet Ukrainian troops being trained to command Challenger 2 tanks at a military facility in Lulworth, Dorset. PIC: Andrew Matthews/WPA Pool/Getty Images

Ukraine needs air defence to hold the line - Patrick Mercer

Germany approved the delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, after weeks of pressure from Kyiv and many allies. PIC: Ronny Hartmann/AFP via Getty Images

Moment of greatest danger in Ukraine is approach - Patrick Mercer

'At the G20 Rishi Sunak pledged his support to Ukraine in ringing tones. PIC: JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images

How Russian delegates left the G20 with a spring in their step - Patrick Mercer

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

What are article 4 and 5 of the NATO Treaty?

US President Joe Biden speaks to media about the Democrats keeping the Senate before the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Cambodia. Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Missile which killed two in Poland ‘unlikely’ to have come from Russia

Photo by ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images.

As new nations join Nato we can't enter Putin's intellectual swamp - Gwynne Dyer

Boris Johnson’s handling of the Ukraine crisis may not be enough to save him from being toppled as Prime Minister. Picture: JONATHAN ERNST/AFP/Getty Images.

No ordinary Nato summit amid Russian invasion - Bill Carmichael

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a press conference at the Nato summit in Madrid, Spain

UK to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP, Boris Johnson announces

Vladimir Putin.

NATO show of strength could stop Russia's ruthless Vladimir Putin - Paul Andrews

Boris Johnson during a visit to Ukraine, meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Picture by Ukraine Government.

Nato Summit leaders must focus on how they can strengthen Ukraine - David Hobbs

‘In shambled our Mr Johnson...boosterish jingoism to counteract the weedy appeasers and a promise of a package that would train 10,000 troops every four months.’ Picture: Ukraine Government.

The perils of 'Ukraine fatigue' as Putin gambles on NATO collapse - Patrick Merc...

Barry Sheerman spoke out against the planned job cuts in the Army.

Ministers urged to reverse 'crazy' plan for Army job cuts by cross-party MPs

Vladimir Putin.

What President Putin really fears about countries joining NATO - David Hobbs

Vladimir Putin

The West's threats to Vladimir Putin will fall on deaf ears - Patrick Mercer

A Ukranian soldier looks into a crater left by a Russian bomb strike in the village of Yatskivka, eastern Ukraine; Russia’s focus now seems to be on the Donbas region. Picture: RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty.

Brutal game of cat and mouse being played in Ukraine - Patrick Mercer

This NATO graphic illustrates the scale and variety of the [known] nuclear weaponry held by Russia in comparison with the United Stated of America. Credit: NATO

Nuclear war - how will we defend ourselves?

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer

Rachel Reeves 'pleased' Jeremy Corbyn is not Prime Minister

Ukraine army Chaplain Mikola Madenski walks through debris outside the destroyed Retroville shopping mall in a residential district, after a Russian attack on the Ukranian capital Kyiv.

Ukraine: Will Britain put boots on the ground? – Patrick Mercer

The Homes for Ukraine scheme highlights the value of civil society, writes Dr Jim McConalogue.

Homes for Ukraine is Britain at its best – Jim McConalogue

The brutality of Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to reverberate around the world.

Why Nato must face Putin’s chemical weapons threat – David Hobbs

Firefighters extinguish an apartment house after a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy)

Putin’s war in Ukraine is a defining struggle for freedom – Bernard Ingham

In this photo released by Ukrainian State Emergency Service, a firefighter hugs an elderly woman after evacuation from an apartment building hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022. (Ukrainian State Emergency Service via AP).

Ukraine: Why sanctions alone won’t stop Putin’s war – Andrew Vine

A man throws a cocktail Molotovs during a self-defence civilian course on the outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. - The Russian army occupied on March 4, 2022 the Ukrainian nuclear power plant of Zaporozhie (south), the largest in Europe, where bombings in the night have raised fears of a disaster as more than 1.2 million people have fled Ukraine into neighbouring countries since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on February 24, United Nations figures showed on March 4, 2022. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images),

Nuclear folly exposed by Putin’s war – Yorkshire Post Letters

Ukrainian troops in an army tank. (Pic credit: Sergey Bobok / AFP via Getty Images)

Russia-Ukraine: Where is Ukraine? What is the capital and population?

A child looks out a steamy bus window with drawings on it as civilians are evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity hospital Wednesday in the besieged port city of Mariupol amid growing warnings from the West that Moscow's invasion is about to take a more brutal and indiscriminate turn. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda).

Ukraine: Putin’s war crimes and how West can respond – David Hobbs