Starmer said he wants Trump to agree that, in the event of a peace settlement in Ukraine, US will offer security guarantees that make it durable

Keir Starmer attended a reception at the British embassy in Washington last night, where Peter Mandelson, the new UK ambassador, predicted that Donald Trump would be a “very consequential president”.

In his speech, Mandelson this was a “very significant moment for our lives, between our two countries and indeed for all the freedom-loving democracies in the world”. He told his guests:

The US and the United Kingdom, we basically share everything together.

We share people, we share cultures, we share a lot of intelligence, we share technologies, and … we also share some of the fighting of our adversaries as well.

You have a leader in this country in the president who in my view is going to be a very consequential president for this country indeed.