Watch: Starmer visits UK nuclear-armed submarine

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has visited the unit of HMS Vanguard aft the submarine returned to UK waters aft months of undersea service.

The nuclear-armed submarine had been patrolling for much than 200 days, marking 1 of the longest deployments successful British Royal Navy history.

Sir Keir, who was accompanied by Defence Secretary John Healey, was the archetypal premier curate to sojourn the boat's "Day Zero" astatine Barrow-in-Furness successful much than a decade.

The premier curate told reporters the Kremlin respected the UK's atomic arsenal due to the fact that "we've got our ain autarkic deterrent and we're committed to Nato".

"What is evidently important is they admit that it is what it is which is simply a credible capability," helium said. "And that it astir surely is."

Britain is hosting a closed gathering connected Thursday of elder subject officers from the "Coalition of the Willing" arsenic they gully up plans for a projected peacekeeping unit for Ukraine.