PM can't balance with unbalanced Trump

HE is skilfully walking a tight-rope rather than lazily sitting on a fence but Keir Starmer eventually, perhaps in days and weeks rather than months or years, will be forced to choose between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.

- KEVIN MAGUIRE

We see from those hugs that his heart is with Ukraine, an invaded European democracy.

But his head is simultaneously telling the Prime Minister to strain every sinew to keep Donald Trump on side.

Trump is an unhinged authoritarian and apologist for tyrannical Vladimir Putin.

Having your cake and eating it was impossible for Boris Johnson, the morally and politically bankrupt former Tory PM, who now looks more like Chamberlain than Churchill after betraying Zelensky by championing Trump for the White House.