UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s pursuit of closer ties with China has raised private questions from Donald Trump’s incoming administration, European diplomats and even some senior British officials.

We have to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position whether or not there are negotiations,” says UK prime minister.

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer met leaders of Baltic states in Estonia for the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) conference on Tuesday, 17 December, before visiting British troops serving on Russia's border.

Sir Keir Starmer was speaking at the Joint Expeditionary Force conference in Estonia where he met leaders of Baltic states.

The Prime Minister's spokesman said Mr Starmer had full confidence in Tulip Siddiq, who has been named alongside her family in an embezzlement probe in Bangladesh

PM Keir Starmer's comments came as he travelled to Norway on Sunday before attending a defence summit in Estonia on a two-day trip to northern Europe

Starmer has made 16 international trips since Labour formed a government in July, with the most common reason being to escalate the imperialist-backed war against Russia.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated on Wednesday his Labour government's plan to increase defence spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), after NATO called on members to boost spending to meet threats from Russia.

PM ‘seized’ by scale of threat Moscow poses to Nordic nations and offers British expertise in identifying covert listening devices

Britain will provide intelligence to a newly formed unit in Cyprus tasked with preventing Russia evade international sanctions.

Sue Gray, the partygate investigator who went on to become Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff, has been named among 30 new Labour peers. Other new appointments include former shadow cabinet minister Thangam Debbonaire and Liz Truss's deputy prime minister Dame Therese Coffey.