Trump practising own kind of diplomacy – Badenochpublished at 09:50 Greenwich Mean Time
09:50 GMT
Laura now puts a direct question to Badenoch, she asks: “Does President Trump know who the villain is?”
The US has a “long history with Russia”, Badenoch begins, but we have had more recent issues she says – citing the Salisbury poisonings.
The leader of the opposition underlines that sometimes in the “heat of the moment” things can be forgotten. She emphasises that Putin invaded and could withdraw at any point.
President Trump is practising his own kind of diplomacy, she says, while adding that Putin is the villain.
Attention has now turned to leader of the Lib Dems, Ed Davey, we’ll continue to bring the latest from Kemi Badenoch as Laura gets under way with her next interview.