Keir Starmer will host Emmanuel Macron for dinner at Chequers, discussing key issues including Ukraine, development, migration, and artificial intelligence. They are likely to align against recent demands from Donald Trump for NATO members to boost defense spending to 5% of GDP. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy noted the impracticality of this for the UK amidst rising debt servicing costs. Tensions may also rise following remarks from Trump’s anticipated director of counterterrorism about repatriating British ISIS members from Syria, a move Lammy opposes.

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