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U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 27, 2025. Starmer is meeting Trump to plead for a U.S. backstop to any Ukraine ceasefire, insisting it would be the only way to stop Russia's Vladimir Putin from invading again. Starmer arrived in Washington late Wednesday to build on a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, amid growing concerns in Europe that the U.S. leader is about to sell Kyiv short in negotiations with Putin.

Beltway Confidential

Trump undermines Ukraine deal by equivocating on British backstop

Tom Rogan · February 27, 2025 5:37 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump, center, and Vice President JD Vance, right, meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Vance and Starmer clash over UK free speech in Oval Office

Annabella Rosciglione · February 27, 2025 4:21 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 27, 2025.

‘Did I say that?’: Trump questions whether he called Zelensky a ‘dictator’

Naomi Lim · February 27, 2025 3:17 pm

President Donald Trump, seated beside United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer Thursday, threw his support behind the U.K.'s plan to give up control of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean that Republicans say is a critical check on China's influence in the region. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Trump signals support for UK plan to give up Chagos Islands despite GOP opposition

Christian Datoc · February 27, 2025 2:37 pm

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer is greeted by President Donald Trump as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

WATCH LIVE: Trump holds press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Emily Hallas · February 27, 2025 1:33 pm

UK announces defense spending increase ahead of Starmer-Trump meeting

Mike Brest · February 25, 2025 10:49 am

Let freedom of speech ring

Ian Haworth · February 23, 2025 6:00 am

PG Wodehouse’s American dream

Alexander Larman · February 20, 2025 11:11 pm

Liz Truss warns Vance is ‘right’ over trouncing of European leaders on free speech

Emily Hallas · February 20, 2025 7:12 pm

A Ukrainian AS-90 self-propelled artillery vehicle fires toward Russian positions at the frontline on Pokrovsk direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2024.

The challenge and necessity of peacekeeping troops for Ukraine

Tom Rogan · February 19, 2025 2:00 pm

Beltway Confidential

Trump must stop the UK’s dangerous surrender of the Chagos Islands

Azeem Ibrahim · February 12, 2025 9:14 am

Britain’s conservative second world war

Yuan Yi Zhu · February 7, 2025 12:20 am