Whereas he has all the time been a fierce critic of Donald Trump, British International Minister (and former Prime Minister) David Cameron, in his journey to the US, plans to fulfill the Republican nominee that’s main in all of the polls.
Cameron will meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken right this moment, in addition to with lawmakers in Congress to press for an help package deal for Ukraine whereas additionally discussing the Israel-Gaza battle.
However earlier than he does so, Cameron will meet former President Donald Trump in Florida, a spokesperson for the British authorities’s International Workplace stated.
It’s described as a ‘standard practice’ engagement with an opposition candidate.
Reuters reported:
“Cameron final week stated he would see Republican Home of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and urge him to cross a $60 billion package deal of army help for Ukraine, which he has held up for months.
‘Success for Ukraine and failure for Putin are vital for American and European security,” Cameron said in a statement, saying it was important to demonstrate to Russian President Vladimir Putin that “aggression doesn’t pay’.
‘The alternative would only encourage Putin in further attempts to re-draw European borders by force, and would be heard clearly in Beijing, Tehran and North Korea’.”
Cameron is predicted to fulfill congressional leaders from each the Republican and Democrat events.
At this level, what Cameron and Trump would focus on is unclear.
“‘It is standard practice for ministers to meet with opposition candidates as part of their routine international engagement’, the spokesperson stated.
Britain has been a staunch ally of Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022, however Cameron will stress it’s the USA that’s the ‘key stone in the arch’ as its tempo and scale of assist for Ukraine is unmatched.”
Cameron needs to extend financial stress on Russia and provides Ukraine the army and humanitarian assist it wants.
BBC reported:
“Mr. Trump, and his supporters throughout the get together, oppose the US package deal offering help to Ukraine. These within the Home of Representatives have vowed to vote in opposition to the package deal with out further funding for US border safety being agreed to first.
Lord Cameron has been urging Republicans for a while to approve the help package deal, significantly angering Republican congresswoman and Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor-Greene, who informed the international secretary to “kiss my ass”.
She was responding to an article written by Lord Cameron, through which he warned the US in opposition to exhibiting ‘the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s’.”
Again in 2015, throughout his tenure as prime minister, Lord Cameron labeled Mr. Trump’s proposed non permanent ban on Muslims coming into the US ‘divisive, stupid and wrong.’
“In his memoirs published in 2019, Lord Cameron further said that he found it ‘depressing’ that Mr. Trump could win an election, and that it was due to his ‘protectionist, xenophobic, misogynistic interventions’.”
