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PRIME MINISTER – NATO, PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN - 26 June 2025

PRIME MINISTER – NATO, PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN - 26 June 2025

Sir Julian Lewis: After a worrying start, President Trump has now strengthened NATO, both by extracting promises of more money and with the positive comments he made at the end of the summit. Has the Prime Minister had a chance to assess whether that means that President Trump’s love affair with Vladimir Putin is beginning to cool?

[The Prime Minister: First, I think it was really important that NATO was united in the way that it was last night, and I do not just mean the comments of President Trump – I mean having the whole 32 countries on the same page at a really important moment for NATO. The right hon. Gentleman will understand how much hard work, guile and diplomacy went into ensuring that was the outcome. I think there was a real sigh of relief around the world that this was the position. On Putin, we are urging that this is the moment to push further to get Putin to the table for an unconditional ceasefire; President Zelensky has said for many weeks that he is prepared for those talks. We discussed that as allies, and I have discussed it many times with President Trump, as the right hon. Gentleman would expect.]