SIR KEIR Starmer will be walking a tightrope on his visit to Washington this week. The stakes couldn’t be much higher at the PM’s first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump since he returned to the White House. The US President has made it clear he wants a lightning-fast deal to end the ruinous, unwinnable war in Ukraine.
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To achieve that, he has negotiated directly with the tyrant who started it, Vladimir Putin. And he seems happy to keep Europe and Ukraine’s valiant leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, at bay. Even at the risk of emboldening the bloodthirsty Putin. The PM is right to point to the direct threat a flawed deal poses to the security of Britain.
As he says today: “A peace deal that does not stop Putin attacking again would be a disaster.”. In May we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. America’s security guarantee to Nato has kept the peace in Europe ever since.
We have stood together united against tyranny whenever freedom was under threat. This week the PM must convince the new president this support is more vital than ever. Anything less could mean that ending one conflict only lights the fuse of another. IT is vital that parents can trust those employed to look after their children.
So a family court judge’s decision to name a private maternity nurse she found had badly injured twin babies is welcome. In her ruling, the judge said she had taken the rare step because the nurse was working in an unregulated area of the health industry.
If her name had remained secret, other unsuspecting parents might hire her and put their own infants in danger. This is a horrific case and Health Secretary Wes Streeting must look into it urgently. The judge has highlighted a shocking loophole that must be closed immediately.
We cannot risk children’s safety at any price. THE average speed on a stretch of the M25 is down to 14.7 miles an hour. At that pace it would be quicker to travel by pushbike than in a car. But as long-suffering motorists know, there is one thing slower than the traffic on the M25.
