The leaders of France and Britain are both due to meet with President Trump this week. Approaches previously tried with him may no longer work.

The prime minister agrees with Donald Trump's comments about Europe needing to spend more on defence ahead of his visit to Washington DC next week.

Keir Starmer jets to Washington this week for a critical meeting with Donald Trump, where the PM will seek to persuade the US President to step back from the brink

European leaders tried to reassert themselves in Paris after being pushed to the sidelines but there is a growing sense that the US and Russia see the world in the same way and may strike deals on more than the future of Ukraine.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday that there can be no talks about the future of Ukraine without the participation of Ukraine, setting his stall out before a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week.

Sir Keir Starmer will this week go to Washington to try to help broker a just peace deal for Ukraine with a capricious president who in just a week has unwound a consensus that was born from the ashes of the Second World War and had endured for 70 years.

The US Commander in Chief has continued to rage against Europe in his latest interview, this time targeting nuclear leaders Sir Keir and President Emmanuel Macron

By stressing points of emergent consensus between the UK and US, Starmer has in effect confirmed he will head to Washington to praise Trump — not bury him. Speaking the same language of power and strength, the prime minister has concluded, will allow for a good-faith conversation about the United States’ role as a security guarantor in Ukraine.

John Kerry says says chances ‘of making peace in Ukraine are real’ as PM is expected to announce new military aid for Ukraine