UK Labour’s foreign policy pitch maintains strong support for Ukraine

Britain’s opposition Labour Party signaled it would continue the current government’s strong support for Ukraine in its war with Russia if it came to power,
with its foreign policy spokesperson warning the rest of Europe against complacency.
The Labour Party is currently around 20 percentage points ahead of the governing Conservatives in opinion polls ahead of an election expected this year, while February will mark the two-year anniversary of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine.
In a speech on Saturday, Labour’s foreign policy chief David Lammy will reiterate Labour’s desire for a new British-EU security pact, and will say that if Labour came to power, he would visit Kyiv in the first 100 days in office “to demonstrate Labour’s long-term commitment to stop Vladimir Putin and begin
work on a pathway towards Ukraine’s NATO membership.”
“We in Europe risk taking our eye off the ball,” Lammy will say, according to extracts of the speech, which added he would label Putin a “ringleader of a new form of fascism”.