{"id":30652,"date":"2025-01-16T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/only-grant-trump-a-uk-state-visit-if-he-agrees-to-ukraine-summit-say-lib-dems\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:32:20","slug":"only-grant-trump-a-uk-state-visit-if-he-agrees-to-ukraine-summit-say-lib-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/only-grant-trump-a-uk-state-visit-if-he-agrees-to-ukraine-summit-say-lib-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Only grant Trump a UK state visit if he agrees to Ukraine summit, say Lib Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Davey says incoming US president is \u2018threat to peace and prosperity\u2019 and relations with him must be transactional<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/jan\/16\/uk-politics-live-kemi-badenoch-tory-brexit-mistakes-keir-starmer-ukraine\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jan\/16\/russia-ukraine-war-live-keir-starmer-in-kyiv-to-sign-100-year-deal\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Britain should offer Donald Trump a state visit only on the condition he agrees to a sit-down summit with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as part of an openly transactional US-UK relationship with the returning president, Ed Davey has said.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech in which the Liberal Democrat leader also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jan\/15\/uk-should-seek-new-customs-union-with-eu-lib-dems-to-say\">called for the UK<\/a> to seek a new customs union with the EU to help insulate itself from the potential impacts of Trump\u2019s second presidency, Davey said that while the US leader could not be trusted, he could also very much not be ignored.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jan\/16\/donald-trump-uk-state-visit-ukraine-summit-lib-dems-ed-davey\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Davey says incoming US president is \u2018threat to peace and prosperity\u2019 and relations with him must be transactional UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates Britain should offer Donald Trump a state visit only on the condition he agrees to a sit-down summit with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as part of &#8230; <a title=\"Only grant Trump a UK state visit if he agrees to Ukraine summit, say Lib Dems\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/only-grant-trump-a-uk-state-visit-if-he-agrees-to-ukraine-summit-say-lib-dems\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Only grant Trump a UK state visit if he agrees to Ukraine summit, say Lib Dems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}