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Hello and I'm

Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie Ball with a Spectators political editor and Kie Charles, author of who will defend Europe

out later this month. Now Katie today the Prime Minister is in Washington

for another meeting,

is second in two months with Joe Biden.

Tell us about the visit and why he's going there

a week before Labour conference.

So this is a planned foreign policy Summit, Kistama heading to Washington.

Of course David Lamme, the Foreign Secretary has also been pitch rolling for this.

And I think there was just a sense that a few key decisions loom, particularly when it comes to Ukraine, but also the Middle East.

And when it comes to Ukraine, obviously one of the things that is being talked about, is the potential use of long-range British

missiles into Russian territory. Now, this is something that Kiestammer has not commented on directly

on the plane over to America. He said he's not going to get into that but actually

strategic decisions have to be made. In the meantime, Vladimir Putin has commented, he's not

too big on the idea. He has ultimately said that that could mean that you could say

NATO is now at war with Russia and then of course that would lead to a big escalation

and the potential he would go down the route and you take Putin's rhetoric of nuclear warfare and so forth.

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