14 Aug 2025

UK: Starmer warns of further Russia sanctions

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 14 August 2025
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy (R) and US Vice President JD Vance (L) fish in the grounds of Chevening House, in Chevening, southeast England, on August 8, 2025. Lammy is hosting the US vice president and his family throughout the weekend for a private holiday at his country retreat in Chevening in Kent. The pair were expected to  discuss shared priorities and the UK-US relationship. (Photo by Kin Cheung / POOL / AFP)

As well as not catching anything, the Foreign Secretary did not have a licence to go fishing in the first place. Photo: KIN CHEUNG

UK correspondent Harriet Line details UK PM Keir Starmer's latest comments on Ukraine - including that Donald Trump's interventions have made a ceasefire chance more 'viable' and that Britain could place further sanctions on Russia if necessary. Treasury is looking at options to raise additional revenue from inheritance tax and the Foreign Secretary David Lammy is in hot water after it emerged he didn't have a rod licence to go fishing with US Vice President JD Vance.

Harriet Line is Deputy Political Editor of the Daily Mail