{"id":144243,"date":"2025-03-04T09:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/?p=144243"},"modified":"2025-03-04T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:29:00","slug":"uk-must-work-with-us-whoever-is-in-office-rayner-says-after-trump-suspends-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/news\/2025\/03\/04\/uk-must-work-with-us-whoever-is-in-office-rayner-says-after-trump-suspends-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"UK must work with US whoever is in office, Rayner says after Trump suspends Ukraine aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s relationship with the United States \u201cwill endure\u201d no matter who is in office, the deputy prime minister has said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/tag\/angela-rayner\/\">Angela Rayner<\/a> said the prime minister remains \u201claser-focused\u201d on Ukraine and would not be \u201cderailed\u201d by announcements from the White House, following news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> has ordered that all military aid be suspended to the war-torn Eastern European country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The extraordinary move comes as the US administration seeks to pressure the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to agree to an unconditional ceasefire with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A White House official said late on Monday night: \u201cPresident [Trump] has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deputy PM suggested the announcement reflects the \u201cvery serious moment\u201d the world is in, adding: \u201cI think the prime minister [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/tag\/keir-starmer-2\/\">Keir Starmer<\/a>] has been very serious about the way he has conducted himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rayner told <i>BBC Radio 4<\/i>\u2019s Today programme: \u201cHe\u2019s laser-focused on getting peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won\u2019t be derailed by announcements. He will continue that dialogue with our oldest and strongest ally, the US, and with European partners and with Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>***Politics.co.uk is the UK\u2019s leading digital-only political website. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/subscribe\/\"><i>Subscribe to our daily newsletter<\/i><\/a><i> for all the latest news and analysis.***<\/i><\/p>\n<p>JD Vance, the US vice president who clashed with Zelenskyy in the White House last week, piled further pressure on Ukraine in an interview overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <i>Fox News<\/i>, he said the Ukrainian president \u201cshowed a clear unwillingness to engage in the peace process\u201d sought by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think he\u2019ll get there eventually\u201d, the vice president said. \u201cHe has to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The military aid cuts follow a meeting between Trump and senior members of his administration including secretary of state Marco Rubio and defence secretary Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if she was shocked by the Trump administration\u2019s announcement on pausing military aid to Ukraine, Rayner said: \u201cThat is a matter for the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cWe are focused on support for Ukraine, bringing the US around the table alongside our European partners in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve put our money where our mouth is and stepped up our support for Ukraine through air defence, through military capabilities and through the military aid we give year upon year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prime minister will not conduct dialogue on open airwaves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on whether the government will regret \u201ccosying up\u201d to the US administration with the king\u2019s offer of a unprecedented second state visit for Trump, Rayner reiterated that America is the UK\u2019s \u201coldest ally\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThe US is our oldest ally, our military capabilities, our support, our trading partners \u2014 we are the closest [that] allies can be.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo our relationship with the US is incredibly important and will continue, and it will endure, despite who may be in office at the time, and I think president Trump is absolutely of the same view.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the prime minister, I think, has done an excellent job of bringing people around the table. He won&#8217;t choose between the US and Europe that is not in British interest.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will continue to work to get that peace and those security guarantees for Ukraine, because that&#8217;s not just what Ukraine deserve a need, but it&#8217;s also about our long term security of our country as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Josh Self is Editor of Politics.co.uk, follow him on Bluesky <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/josh-self.bsky.social\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Politics.co.uk is the UK\u2019s leading digital-only political website. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/subscribe\/\"><i>Subscribe to our daily newsletter<\/i><\/a><i> for all the latest news and analysis.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s relationship with the United States \u201cwill endure\u201d no matter who is in office, the deputy prime minister has said.\u00a0 Angela Rayner said the prime minister remains \u201claser-focused\u201d on Ukraine and would not be \u201cderailed\u201d by announcements from the White House, following news that Donald Trump has ordered that all military aid be&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/news\/2025\/03\/04\/uk-must-work-with-us-whoever-is-in-office-rayner-says-after-trump-suspends-ukraine-aid\/\" title=\"Read UK must work with US whoever is in office, Rayner says after Trump suspends Ukraine aid\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":103897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[5925,33,6483,7007],"editors-picks":[],"maps":[],"class_list":["post-144243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-angela-rayner","tag-donald-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK must work with US whoever is in office, Rayner says after Trump suspends Ukraine aid - Politics.co.uk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/news\/2025\/03\/04\/uk-must-work-with-us-whoever-is-in-office-rayner-says-after-trump-suspends-ukraine-aid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK must work with US whoever is in office, Rayner says after Trump suspends Ukraine aid - Politics.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The United Kingdom\u2019s relationship with the United States \u201cwill endure\u201d no matter who is in office, the deputy prime minister has said.\u00a0 Angela Rayner said the prime minister remains \u201claser-focused\u201d on Ukraine and would not be \u201cderailed\u201d by announcements from the White House, following news that Donald Trump has ordered that all military aid be... 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