Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown urges the PM to continue taking a lead in Ukraine and to give Ukraine more defensive weapons so that we can eventually drag President Putin and the Russian Federation to a peace agreement and then lead the world in gaining reparations so that the great country of Ukraine can be rebuilt.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds) (Con)
I have heard the fulsome apology by the Prime Minister, but he is taking a lead in Ukraine and I suggest he needs to keep giving Ukraine defensive weapons so that we can eventually drag President Putin and the Russian Federation to a peace agreement. Will he then lead the world in gaining reparations so that the great country of Ukraine can be rebuilt?
The Prime Minister (Boris Johnson)
I thank my hon. Friend for his staunch position on Ukraine. He is completely right. I am afraid there is now no easy way to find a diplomatic or negotiated solution; I know the House would have preferred that, but it will be difficult to construct an off-ramp for Vladimir Putin. We are now in a logic where we must simply do everything we can collectively to ensure that Vladimir Putin fails, and fails comprehensively, in Ukraine.