UK PM expected to urge leaders at Munich Security Conference to ‘double down on our military support’ for Kyiv
Rishi Sunak will call on world leaders to ensure a “lasting peace” for Ukraine with the establishment of a new Nato charter to help the countryFresh from hosting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the UK last week, Sunak is expected to call for countries to “double down on our military support” and warn that “the security and sovereignty of every nation” is at stake.
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, was also due to speak at the conference, but strikes at Munich airport meant a planned flight from Poland to Germany was cancelled. He had been in Ukraine, visiting Zelenskiy to affirm that a Labour government would be unwavering in its support for Kyiv.Starmer’s space on a panel will be filled instead by David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, while the shadow defence secretary, John Healey, is also at the conference.
Although Sunak will use the sidelines of the security conference to speak to EU leaders about talk of an imminent breakthrough on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, his main objective will be maintaining western unity against Russia. “Now is the moment to double down on our military support,” the prime minister is expected to say. “When [Vladimir] Putin started this war, he gambled that our resolve would falter. Even now he is betting we will lose our nerve. But we proved him wrong then, and we will prove him wrong now.”
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