Starmer verspricht, die Beziehungen zu den USA zu stärken, um dem „unberechenbaren“ Putin entgegenzuwirken

From The Times:

Britain will invest “more deeply than ever” in the special relationship with the US under Donald Trump, Sir Keir Starmer has said as he warned that President Putin posed a “near and present danger” to the West.

The prime minister used his first major foreign policy speech to say that the relationship between Britain and the US had provided the “cornerstone of our security and prosperity for over a century”. “We will never turn away from that,” he said.

In a direct overture to [Trump](https://www.thetimes.com/topic/donald-trump), he said that the US president-elect had been a “gracious” host when the two men met in New York earlier this year. “I told him we will invest more deeply than ever in this transatlantic bond with our American friends in the years to come,” he said.

However, he also said that [Ukraine](https://www.thetimes.com/topic/ukraine) must now be put in the “strongest possible position” before any negotiations over a peace deal with Russia.