Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reportedly ordered a ‘Goldman Sachs-style’ audit into the Ukraine war.
Military chiefs have argued the next few months of the war, and the supply of weapons to help Ukraine fight it, will be essential.
‘At the start of this it was Boris sitting down and saying: “Let’s just go for this.” So Rishi needs to channel his inner Boris on foreign policy though not of course on anything else.’
A Downing Street source said it was not true that Sunak was being overly cautious and that ‘the UK government’s support for Ukraine is unwavering’.
They said the planned data-driven assessment would analyse the invasion and the importance of Britain’s military supplies to Ukraine.
The source added: ‘This is about looking at what we have put in, what we have got out.’
UK has been one of the biggest suppliers of military resources to help battle the invasion since Russian President Putin invaded Ukraine in February.
The Whitehall source added that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is aware of the change in approach by Downing Street and is trying to ‘inspire’ Mr Sunak to keep him on side during the conflict.
A source close to the Prime Minister said: ‘the UK government’s support for Ukraine is unwavering’.
Mr Sunak recently travelled to Ukraine in a surprise visit to reaffirm the UK’s support for the war-torn country.He tweeted at the time: ‘Britain knows what it means to fight for freedom.’
