Trump's commitment to Ukraine peace is sincere - PM

Sir Keir Starmer has told MPs that US President Donald Trump's committedness to achieving bid successful Ukraine is "sincere".

The premier curate said Europe would person to bash "the dense lifting" arsenic portion of a bid woody but US backing would beryllium vital.

As Sir Keir was speaking successful the House of Commons, Trump posted connected societal media: "Europe... stated flatly that they cannot bash the occupation without the US – astir apt not a large connection to person been made successful presumption of a amusement of spot against Russia. What are they thinking?"

He besides accused Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky of not wanting bid adding: "America volition not enactment up with it for overmuch longer."

Following a acme of occidental leaders implicit the weekend, the UK and France said they would nutrient a program to halt the fighting, which would past beryllium discussed with the US.

Addressing MPs, Sir Keir said Britain would "play a starring role" successful immoderate agreed woody including, if necessary, deploying British troops successful Ukraine to deter Russia from further attacks.

Trump has truthful acold not agreed to supply immoderate information guarantees and has alternatively focused connected a woody to unfastened up Ukrainian minerals to US companies.

He has argued that the beingness of American workers successful the state would assistance discourage Russia from trying to encroach connected Ukraine territory.

Asked by Reform UK person Nigel Farage if the minerals woody would supply "enough of a information guarantee", Sir Keir said the woody "is not capable connected its own".

The premier curate received wide backing from MPs crossed antithetic parties with the erstwhile overseas secretary, Conservative James Cleverly, saying helium had "not enactment a ft wrong" implicit the weekend.

Conservative person Kemi Badenoch said she backed the PM's determination to money an summation successful defence spending by cutting the assistance budget and added that she would enactment him to marque further "difficult choices - including connected welfare".

Speaking astir the deployment of British troops, the premier curate said helium did not instrumentality immoderate specified determination "lightly" and promised MPs a ballot if that happened.

He argued that backing Ukraine was not lone "the close happening to do" but was besides successful British interests.

"If we bash not execute a lasting bid past the instability and insecurity that hits surviving standards of moving radical successful Britain, that volition lone get worse and Putin's appetite for struggle and chaos, that volition lone grow."

He aboriginal said "success was not guaranteed but I americium not going to fto up".

Russia has flatly rejected the thought of occidental troops being sent to Ukraine arsenic portion of immoderate bid deal.

Sunday's acme successful London came aft an explosive spat betwixt Trump and Zelensky astatine the White House past week.

Speaking successful the House of Commons, Liberal Democrat person Sir Ed Davey said Trump was "no longer a reliable state with respect to Russia" and that it was clip the UK reviewed its dependency connected the US.

"I don't hold with him," replied Sir Keir adding: "The US and UK person the closest of relationships - our defence, information and quality are wholly intertwined.

"A immense mistake astatine a clip similar this would beryllium to suggest immoderate weakening of that nexus is the mode forward."

At the weekend, President Macron had suggested a partial, month-long truce betwixt Russia and Ukraine, successful which some would hold to a truce for 4 weeks successful the air, connected the oversea and astir vigor infrastructure, but it would not screen crushed warring on the frontline successful the east.

Eléonore Caroit, a subordinate of the French overseas affairs committee, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that President Macron's connection sent a "very beardown message" to Europe "that if we want, we tin bash something".

But Defence Minister Luke Pollard told the BBC it was "not a program that we presently recognise".

He added: "Certainly determination are a fig of antithetic options being discussed privately betwixt the UK, France and our allies… What we are surely doing is looking astatine what program would bring bid arsenic soon arsenic we can, and what program creates a lasting peace."

The premier curate hosted the London acme arsenic allies scramble to signifier bid negotiations and creaseless implicit fractured relations betwixt Trump and Zelensky.

At the summit, Sir Keir announced a four-point program to enactment with Ukraine to extremity the warfare and support the state from Russia.

The program involves including Ukraine successful talks, continuing to proviso it with subject aid, boosting its defence capabilities and gathering a "coalition of the willing" to support a woody to extremity the fighting.

The UK and France are taking a starring relation and person some committed to nonstop soldiers to Ukraine, nether the proposals.

But isolated from expanding spending connected defence, determination appears to beryllium nary statement connected a program to extremity the warfare among European leaders.

Defence Secretary John Healey volition sojourn the US aboriginal this week to determination discussions forward.

In different developments implicit the weekend:

• Zelensky said helium was prepared to resign arsenic president if his state was granted rank of Nato, the occidental information alliance
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said she volition contiguous a program to "rearm" Europe successful the coming days
• Chancellor Rachel Reeves signed disconnected a £2.26bn indebtedness strategy to assistance Ukraine bargain weapons and money its reconstruction aft the war
• Sir Keir has announced a £1.6bn rocket deal for Ukraine.