{"id":10189,"date":"2026-01-07T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10189"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:23:10","slug":"mps-would-vote-on-using-troops-in-ukraine-keir-starmer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10189","title":{"rendered":"MPs would vote on using troops in Ukraine, Keir Starmer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sir Keir Starmer has pledged that MPs would get a vote on the deployment of British soldiers to police any peace agreement in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The prime minister said the move would be consistent with &#8220;recent practice&#8221; on the use of UK armed forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It comes after the UK and France reiterated their commitment to deploy troops to deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again if a deal to end the conflict is struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The government has not specified how many British troops could be committed, with Sir Keir adding it would be &#8220;in accordance with our military plans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">During Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions, Sir Keir told MPs that in the event of a peace agreement, British personnel would conduct &#8220;deterrence operations&#8221; and protect  new &#8220;military hubs&#8221; allies are planning to construct in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">After PMQs, Downing Street would not comment on whether the Commons vote, would tie the government&#8217;s hands should MPs reject the government&#8217;s proposals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Tuesday, the UK and France signed a declaration of intent on deploying troops in Ukraine, with the two countries establishing &#8220;military hubs&#8221; in the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Allies also largely agreed security guarantees for Ukraine and proposed that the US would take the lead in monitoring a truce. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#MPs #vote #troops #Ukraine #Keir #Starmer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Keir Starmer has pledged t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}