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Badenoch warns no ‘blank cheque’ for Ukraine
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London,March 5, 2025

SIR Keir Starmer was warned in the Commons today that he could not write a “blank cheque” in support of Ukraine.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch placed her party on the sceptical side of the gung-ho premier, who favours the continuation of Kiev’s fight to expel Russian invasion forces.

Ms Badenoch told MPs that the Conservatives supported “efforts to resolve this conflict, but we cannot write a blank cheque.

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