Johnson hails German ‘determination’ over Ukraine before Scholz meeting

British PM plays down countries' differences as he praises chancellor for efforts on Russian energy imports

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Boris Johnson has moved to paper over differences with Germany on support for Ukraine, by hailing Berlin's principled determination" to end its dependency on Russian energy before a meeting in London with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

It is the first meeting between the two men since the Social Democrat Scholz was elected to lead a three-party coalition government, and follows a week in which Germany resisted British calls for the major economies to set out a timetable to end dependency on Russian energy.