Trump, Starmer To Put America’s ‘Special Relationship’ With Britain to One of Its Severest Tests

The British leader is due at Washington Thursday for a parley at the White House.

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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer at London, July 5, 2024. AP/Kin Cheung

President Trump and Prime Minister Starmer will put the historic Anglo-American  “special relationship” to one of its severest tests Thursday when Sir Keir meets Mr. Trump at the White House and tries to talk him into standing up for Ukraine.

That goal won’t be easy considering that Mr. Trump has called the Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelensky, “a dictator” and refused to support a United Nations resolution condemning Russia for the invasion on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion.

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