A wily former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, famously said that “a week is a long time in politics.”If anything, he was guilty of understatement. No one captured the mood better than Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose speech at the World Economic Forum at Davos on Wednesday infuriated Trump. The United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy all rejected invitations to join Trump’s Board of Peace, not wishing to be subordinate to him as the chairman. “I obviously have concerns about Putin being on a Board of Peace,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, after Trump declared the Russian leader had agreed to join. Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever was more explicit.

Source: CNN January 26, 2026 08:31 UTC