quickly. i think we've made very substantive steps forward during our discussions, and this is a major step in what we're experiencing today. we had a video conference with all of the g—7 leaders, which was an opportunity for us to discuss this matter. three days after the russian war in ukraine and to express our support for president zelenskyy to the ukrainian people, but also to speak and share about our desire for a lasting peace, this is what we have spoken about very forcibly over the past few weeks. we thought that this war was only going to last a few weeks when it broke out in 2022. we admire greatly the courage of the ukrainian people. and mr president, i wish to thank you for this. >> as you. >> as you. >> you mentioned that there are

responsibilities on europe's side, and indeed we have invested 128 billion in aid to ukraine and the ukrainians. ukraine and the ukrainians. ukraine has been able to hold the front of our collective security. it's fought over these past few years for its independence and for its sovereignty, but also for our collective security, because i think that no one in this room wants to live in a world where it's the law of the strongest and international borders can be violated from one day to the next by anyone. over the past few hours. and as you mentioned this, mr president, we've been able to see a few things take shape. first of all, allow me to commend you on your decision to work with president zelenskyy and to conclude this agreement that's so important for the us. and ukraine on rare earths, critical minerals, but also having substantive conversations

with president zelenskyy during this key phase of achieving this deal this key phase of achieving this deal, which is a major commitment to ukraine's sovereignty. and i think that's very commendable. we also have a shared desire to build peace. david greenwood—haigh we will have this responsibility. this is ten years after the war started in crimea. and then we saw the events in donbas and the donbas region. and along the northern part of the country. we want to save lives. we want to bnng want to save lives. we want to bring prisoners back and bring back families. >> that was the us president, donald trump, and the french president, emmanuel macron, speaking at the white house. now, though, it's time for jacob rees—mogg's state of the nation. >> hello. >> hello. >> good evening. it's me, jacob rees—mogg on state of the nation

tonight. does sir keir starmer think we're german by declaring reform is dangerously right wing.7 tonight i will put that question to a former uk chairman, zaur yousef. meanwhile, the tyranny of labour's overbearing state has been revealed as police visit a grandmother for the crime of criticising labour councillors on social media. perhaps jd vance was right, as the universities that are failing the taxpayer revealed in a list of student loan repayments. tonight i'll be calling for an end to their excessive subsidy. if they are no good, they should fail. plus, as today marks the third anniversary of putin's invasion of ukraine, will be debating donald trump's controversial plan to bring the war to an end. state of the nafion war to an end. state of the nation starts now. it was in september of 2016 when the us presidential candidate,

hillary clinton, made the fateful error of calling donald trump's base the basket of deplorables, claiming half of them were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and islamophobic. that was the moment donald trump won the election. joe biden made the same mistake more recently when he said. just the other day, a speaker at his rally called puerto rico a floating island of garbage. well, let me tell you something. the only garbage i see floating out there is your supporters. >> and donald trump responded exactly as you would expect. >> 250 million people are not garbage. i can tell you who the real garbage is, but we won't say that. how do you like my garbage truck.7 this truck is in honour of kamala and joe biden. >> isn't trump fun.7 unlike old macron, who we were listening to droning on a moment ago. anyway, how's the prime minister? the reverend starmer made the clinton biden era. >> a dangerous right wing

politics. you want to know what farage and reform are doing on their rare visits to parliament? they're voting against our employment rights bill. they claim to be the party of patriotism, but they're fawning over putin. >> well, you'd have thought if you're the party of patriotism, you're the party of patriotism, you would at least pronounce it in the english way. but never mind. mr starmer clearly wants to agrees up to mr trump, where he goes designating legitimate opposition as dangerous or beyond the pale alienate swathes of the population. the reform party is currently leading in the opinion polls, with some results putting it close to the share of the vote achieved by the labour party at the last election. nigel farage ends up making a deal with the tories. we could see a tory reform coalition in government the next election. so, in other words, a majority of the electorate could come under the reverend starmer's definition of dangerously right wing. we're witnessing the same issue in germany. following its election,

christian democrats have ruled out a coalition with the afd. that came in second. but this means going into coalition with the party that has just lost has just been rejected by the voters at the election. dismissing your enemies damages you and it damages democracy. even if your concerns are justified. politicians have to respect the electorate, but to rule out a coalition with the afd in favour of returning the governing party to government risks boosting support for the afd as voters begin to feel that, however they vote, the same faces remain in government, just sitting in slightly different seats. and to claim that reform, a right leaning party that holds views shared by millions across the country, is dangerous and beyond the pale is just silly. reform in its previous guise, as ukip actually fought off the bnp and it holds democracy in contempt. it's also desperate reforms. views are mainstream, opposing the ridiculous employment rights proposals of the hard left government that we've got.

calling them rude names makes a keir starmer look weak. earlier this evening i spoke to a former chairman. the very, very dangerous. watch for yourselves. zia yusuf. i'm delighted to be joined by yusuf this evening. zia, are you a dangerous right wing political figure? >> look, keir starmers speech yesterday was confirmation that reform is officially now the effectively the actual opposition in this country. he's terrified. you can see it in his eyes. and the reason he's terrified is because reform is shining a bright, disinfecting light on his wretched government, and we have no intention of stopping jacob. >> fryston term of abuse, isn't it? what is it that you think he thinks is dangerous about you? is it dangerous that you're in favour of freedom of speech? is it dangerous that you think the uk should govern herself? is it

dangerous that you think we should pull out of the european convention on human rights in. >> well, you're absolutely right. it's interesting that he chooses to use the word dangerous and refuses to engage substantively on issues. and the reason he can't engage substantively on issues is because he would lose decisively. look, labour is making the same mistake that politicians in this country have made now for years and years and years, which is essentially insulting the very people whose votes they are supposed to be trying to win. as you said. absolutely. we stand up for freedom of speech, something his government are hell for leather trying to curtail. we are shining a bright light on the appalling policies that he has enacted since coming to power. none of which, by the way, were in his manifesto. whether that's the tax rate on farmers, whether that's the increase in national insurance on employers, whether it's the desperate, desperate

attempts to give away british sovereign territory and then lease it back for extraordinary amounts of money, over £50 billion over the duration of the 99 year proposed lease for the chagos islands. so we're going to keep making the point to the british people that this is a this is a government that is anti—british. they hate britain. they hate its values and are deeply, deeply incompetent. >> do you think that starmer is trying to associate you with continental parties such as afd, where obviously the german political situation is so very different, but that the mainstream political parties simply won't deal with afd and have said that they're so right wing that they can't have any links to them. do you think this is the attempt that starmer is making, and do you have any fellow feeling with afd? >> that it might well be what he is trying to do? it's >> that it might well be what he is trying t