UK working on Ukraine peace, Starmer insists

SIR Keir Starmer has told his Cabinet the “stakes remain high” but the UK is continuing to work with “all its partners” to secure peace in Ukraine, as Donald Trump castigated European leaders’ failure to end the war.

- SOPHIE WINGATE AND NINA LLOYD

It comes after the Prime Minister hosted crisis talks with European allies over the country’s future, denigrated by Mr Trump as “weak” leaders of “decaying” nations failing to “produce” anything as “the war just keeps going on and on”.

The US President again accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of not reading the latest draft of the peace plan, in an extraordinary attack on Europe and Kyiv in an interview that will not calm concerns he could abandon Ukraine to Russian aggression.

Downing Street said nobody wants peace in Ukraine more than Mr Zelenskyy and rejected Mr Trump's criticism of Europe's failure to “produce”.

A No 10 spokesman said: “I would reject that in terms of, you've seen the number of countries involved in the coalition of the willing discussions, you've also seen the work the UK has done in terms of leading the response on sanctions, including against the shadow fleet, but we strongly support the US peace process.”