Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup.

This week the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary flew to the US for discussions involving

whether to allow Ukraine to file long-range missiles into Russian territory.

Vladimir Putin has warned he would view that outcome as direct participation from NATO in the conflict.

Speaking to Trevor Phillips, on Sky News Foreign Secretary David Lammy

refused to confirm whether these missiles would be granted to Ukraine.

The Prime Minister has been to Germany, he's been to France, he's been to Dublin, he's going

to Italy.

We spent time with our closest allies in the United States discussing a range of issues,

Iran, China, the Middle East, and of course Ukraine, and on Ukraine discussing strategy and intent to ensure that we support

them to get them through the winter and into next year and that we need those

conversation it's a national and into next year. And that we need those conversations.

It's a national.

And the Americans are saying no.

Well, I went to Ukraine with Tony Blinkin. The Ukrainians want ammunition. We've given them more ammunition.

They want more missiles. We've given them 650 brimstone missiles. They want more artillery guns. We've given them

AS90 artillery guns and yes there's a debate yes there's a debate about further missiles and we are discussing that as allies you would

expect us to Trevor you don't expect to share the operational decision you and

I can't do that yeah but as a Selensky's concerned, there's no debate.

He wants you to say yes.

And actually, that's interesting.

Is the objection here, the thing you're discussing?

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