PM welcomes German chancellor to Downing Street

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Sir Keir Starmer hosts German chancellor Friedrich Merz on his first official visit to the UK on Thursday as the Prime Minister seeks to boost ties on defence and tackling people smuggling operations. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Have you lost control of your party, Prime Minister?

00:05Prime Minister, are you punishing MPs for disabled people?

00:10Are you trying to scare your MPs, Prime Minister?

00:15Is party likely now more important than the British people?

00:30Are you punishing MPs for supporting disabled people, Prime Minister?

00:35It's such a pleasure to welcome you here to Downing Street,

00:40particularly since we've just signed the Kensington Treaty in the last hour,

00:45which is a historic document which really measures just how close our countries are

00:52and our ambition for the future.

00:55I can't actually believe that it's the first German-UK treaty of its sort ever.

01:01Kier, you are right.

01:03I was really surprised as well to realise that this is the first agreement

01:09between our respective countries after the Second World War.

01:14We never had one.

01:16We had you in the European Union and we thought this is enough,

01:20but as we are now learning, this is not enough.

01:23I'm really very, very optimistic that we are now opening a new page

01:28in our bilateral relation between the United Kingdom and Germany

01:34in terms of cooperation on so many fields of politics,

01:39especially on security, defence, but also on the economic environment,

01:44competitiveness of all industries.

01:46ALI FORTEMITH

01:51extreme

02:05ACTIVITIES

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