Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcomed President Volodymyr Zelensky to Downing Street on Wednesday, as the Ukrainian leader looks to shore up his European allies five years into Russia’s war on Ukraine. Burnham told Zelensky that Britain “would forever stand by you” and that he was accelerating the delivery of air defences to Ukraine. Burnham previously
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said it is his job to “repair bridges” between Ukraine and the United States, ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street. It comes after President Donald Trump said he had struck a deal with Moscow to import Russian diesel. Asked about Trump’s move during Prime Minister’s
NEW YORK — British Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces a double test on the world stage Tuesday when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time and addresses the United Nations General Assembly. It’s a baptism of fire for the neophyte leader, who has gone from mayor of the northwest England city of
“Donald Trump is trying to claim he’s got a success in Greenland, but actually, all he’s got is almost a carbon copy of the agreement that’s persisted since the 1950s,” he said during a Q&A at the Lib Dem party conference. “So let Donald Trump try to pretend he’s had a victory. The truth is,
Andy Burnham will mark his first foreign visit as prime minister with a trip to Kyiv on Monday to reiterate the UK’s support for Ukraine and honour the country’s independence day. The prime minister will chair his first meeting of the “coalition of the willing”, set up by the UK and France under his predecessor,
Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with a person posing as the chief of staff to US President Donald Trump. Downing Street has declined to comment on the security breach, first reported by Politico. Politico reported that officials said Burnham communicated with the person claiming to be Susie Wiles “before becoming suspicious that the contact
