Rishi Sunak's big US pitch: Ukraine tops agenda (but don't mention a trade deal)

R ishi Sunak was making his big pitch to Joe Biden on Thursday to burnish the special relationship ties between Britain and America in his first Oval Office talks with the president. The war in Ukraine was set to top the agenda, with the UK having led the West in supplying arms to Kyiv to fight back against Vladimir Putin's invasion. The Prime Minister's White House visit comes at a crunch time in the conflict, amid reports of Ukrainian forces seizing the initiative in a series of front-line battles thought to be part of the long-awaited counter-offensive. Its success, or…