Sir Keir Starmer will fly to the United States on Wednesday ahead of crunch talks with Donald Trump as Washington and Kyiv agreed a draft deal on Ukraine’s minerals, which could lead to peace in the war with Russia.
The Prime Minister is travelling to the White House after facing his weekly grilling in the House of Commons, following his announcement of a dramatic increase in defence spending paid for by cutting the international aid budget.
Kyiv has agreed to a minerals deal which had been pushed for by the new US administration, which could be officially signed off when President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington.