Trump criticises European leaders at Starmer’s Ukraine summit for saying they need US support – as it happened

Keir Starmer addresses MPs over Ukraine. Photograph: House Of Commons Handout/EPA

6.20pm GMT

Early evening summary

• Keir Starmer has told MPs that he “fundamentally” disagrees with anyone arguing that the UK should start to loosen security links with the US. During a two-hour statement in the Commons, several MPs suggested Britain can no longer trust America, particularly because of the way President Trump treated President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday. When the Lib Dem leader Ed Davey put it to him that the US was no longer a reliable ally on matters relating to Russia, Starmer said he disagreed. (See 4.01pm.) And, in response to another question, he said the UK had never split from the US before and should not start now. (See 4.19pm.) Starmer also restated his call for a peace deal in Ukraine to backed up by a robust US security guarantee. (See 4.41pm.) But, as Starmer was speaking, President Trump issued a new statement mocking the European “show of strength against Russia” – boosting fears that the transatlantic alliance is being tested as never before. (See 5.30pm.)

• France is proposing a partial one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron and his foreign minister have said, as European efforts to bolster support for Kyiv accelerate in the face of uncertain US backing.

• The Conservatives have compared Nigel Farage to Jeremy Corbyn after the Reform UK leader said Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been “rude” to Donald Trump, as well as criticising the Ukrainian president for not wearing a suit to the Oval Office.

• Peter Mandelson has been rebuffed for saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be more supportive of US peace efforts and that Ukraine should unilaterally call a ceasefire, with a UK defence minister saying this was “not government policy”.

Updated at 6.21pm GMT

6.04pm GMT

Plaid Cymru calls for government's fiscal rules to be revised as alternative to aid cuts

In the Commons Liz Saville Roberts, the Plaid Cymru leader, suggested that, instead of slashing the aid budget to fund higher defence spending, the government should revisise its fiscal rules. “Boosting defence spending shouldn’t be at the expense of international aid or public services starved of resources,” she said.

In response, Starmer said:

On the fiscal rules, I do think economic stability is vitally important. If we lose that we will lose far more than our budgets.

I will work across the house on whatever ways we can to increase development aid notwithstanding the budgetary constraints and that’s why I spoke to the president of the World Bank on Friday to have that very discussion.

In her resignation letter on Friday, Anneliese Dodds, the former development minister, suggested she also favoured a review of the government’s fiscal rules as an alternative to the aid cuts.