Only one other minister scores lower than PM in recent ConservativeHome surveyThe Foreign Office has announced sanctions on a bank and two companies supporting military groups involved in the civil war in Sudan. “These sanctions send a clear signal to the warring parties that they must end fighting and meaningfully engage in a peace process,” the Foreign Office said in its news release.Donald Trump did not complain to David Cameron about Cameron’s previous anti-Trump comments when they met in Florida last week, the foreign secretary said this morning.Look, it was a good meeting.As politicians, we will know there’s a track record of things we’ve said about each other. But, ultimately, Britain and America are important partners. We don’t know who will be president after November. It is not for us to get involved. It’s for the Americans to choose their president. We then work [together].Obviously it’s American politics, and one shouldn’t get too involved, but it sounded to me as if they are they’re thinking about how to turn that money from America to Ukraine that’s so vital, perhaps to turn it into a loan rather than a grant. And that, to me looked like good progress.So we’ll keep pushing for that. Because in terms of helping Ukraine, there are lots of things they need, but actually nothing is more important, more important right now, than America doing what Europe have done, what we’ve done, which is providing that funding to keep them in the fight and push back against Russia, so over time they can be victorious and achieve a just peace. Continue reading...
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