Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has hailed the UK's relationship with Poland, telling his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk they were 'allies for the long term'. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We are Sojuznicy Nazarsze. I hope I got that right. Allies for the long term. And we will
00:24never forget in Britain that it was Polish pilots that gave their lives to protect our
00:28country in the Battle of Britain. And today we're proud to stand together as NATO allies,
00:33two of Europe's biggest military powers, two of Ukraine's firmest friends. And Donald,
00:38I want to thank you and President Duda for your leadership in supporting Ukraine. We
00:42have stood beside them for two years, but this is the moment for us militarily to go
00:47further. And today I announced an extra half a billion pounds of additional support to
00:52Ukraine to provide more help on the battlefield and defend against the relentless Russian
00:57bombardment. And there is, as you said, so much that unites us. There's an incredible
01:02affinity between our peoples. But I know, Donald, from our conversation that we have
01:06something else in common, that we are united by our admiration for one of Europe's great
01:11leaders. I'm, of course, talking about Margaret Thatcher. She was the first British prime
01:15minister to visit Poland back in 1988. But Donald knows that because you were there to
01:21meet her at Nank's shipyard. And just to conclude, in a speech during that visit, she
01:27described precisely the challenge before us today. She said, experiences teaches us that
01:34freedom incurs responsibility. And as ever, she was right. And I'm pleased that together
01:40we are meeting that responsibility. Thank you very much.