Keir Starmer does not face the weekend he had in mind, convinced that his visit to the White House had been a diplomatic and personal success.
The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has landed this Saturday at 11.00 (noon, in Spanish peninsular hours) at the Stanstead airport of the British capital, his intention was Trafalgar Square.
Starmer has advanced his meeting with Zelenski to this Saturday afternoon, despite the fact that the initial forecast was that both leaders were seen on Sunday, hours before a meeting that will include 16 European leaders, including the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, together with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the general secretary of NATO, Mark Rutte.
now faces an extremely delicate situation: it must be in their country where they begin to rebuild all broken ties between Washington and kyiv, after the clash between Trump and Zelenski, or where the US president receives a firmness response from Europe, the United Kingdom included.
The joint maneuver of the British Prime Minister and has been weakened. Both have been the first to propose a peace force with European troops in Ukraine. Both have tried to scratch from the US president security guarantees against future threats by Russia. Both returned to their respective countries with good words and patted on their backs, but empty -handed.
Starmer spoke on the phone with the American and Ukraine on Friday night, after both televised dispute. “The prime minister maintains his unwavering support to Ukraine, and is doing everything he can to find a path towards lasting peace, settled on the sovereignty and security of Ukraine,” said Downing Street spokesperson shortly after.
The United Kingdom has made its unconditional support to Ukraine into a state policy that has the support of the two main British parties, the conservative and the laborist.
Therefore, this Saturday, it sounded in total harmony with that of the Starmer government: “We must ensure that we work with the two allies, the United States and Ukraine. We can disagree with what happened yesterday [por el viernes] In Washington, but the important thing is to think about the following steps, and that involves concentrating on the meeting of European leaders to be held in London, ”he said. “The prime minister and I are united in our support for Ukraine,” Badenoch emphasized.
Starmer, who had an official bilateral encounter with Zelenski on Sunday morning – which has advanced this Saturday – and another with the Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, plans to receive all European leaders around noon (one in the afternoon, Spanish peninsular schedule), for a meeting that will last until mid -afternoon.
