Kemi Badenoch piles the pressure on Sir Keir Starmer ahead of the prime minister’s visit to Washington on Thursday. Speaking in London, the Conservative Party leader says it is "absolutely critical" Starmer succeeds in his talks with President Trump – especially regarding Ukraine.
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00:00An end to the war is being negotiated while a fifth of Ukrainian territory is under enemy
00:07occupation. The danger is that aggression does not merely go unpunished but ends up rewarded.
00:15Russia and other authoritarian regimes will be emboldened if that is how this war ends.
00:23And this is why it is absolutely critical that the Prime Minister succeeds
00:28in his talks with President Trump later this week. America is an ally but I've been very clear
00:34that I disagree with President Trump when he said that President Zelensky was a dictator. Vladimir
00:40Putin is the dictator and I wouldn't be afraid to say so. But I also would be saying things
00:47that he and I would agree with which is that we need to spend more on defense. And a relationship
00:52even with friends and allies isn't about just telling people what they want to hear it's about
00:56speaking the truth. But there are so many things that we can cooperate on with the U.S. I don't
01:00think I would be having any problems with those discussions.