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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> faces Kemi Badenoch<\/a> in the first Prime Minister\u2019s Questions of the year on Wednesday (7 January).<\/p>\n It comes a day after the prime minister pledged to put British boots on the ground in Ukraine<\/a> once a peace deal is signed with Russia.<\/p>\n Sir Keir said that both the UK and France would \u201cestablish military hubs across Ukraine\u201d to deter any possible future Russian aggression, while French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> later said thousands of troops may be sent to Kyiv.<\/p>\n The document, which was signed at a summit in Paris alongside Volodymyr Zelensky, was hailed as \u201ca significant step forward\u201d in bringing about the coalition of the willing to guarantee peace.<\/p>\n The meeting also comes as Donald Trump<\/a> continues to reinstate his threats to annex Greenland by force, after claiming the mineral-rich territory is needed for the US<\/a>\u2019s \u201cnational security\u201d.<\/p>\n European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer have issued a statement declaring that Greenland \u201cbelongs to its people\u201d as they defended the territory\u2019s sovereignty and rallied to support Denmark. <\/p>\n The White House has said that military force could be used on the strategically placed island. \u201cUtilizing the US military is always an option at the Commander-in-Chief’s disposal,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n The prime minister is also facing allegations of \u201cBrexit betrayal\u201d after he said he wants to pursue \u201ceven closer alignment with the single market\u201d and \u201cgo further\u201d with the EU if it aligns with the UK\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-680063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115854233114331487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}