This comes as European allies and Ukrainian officials are concerned they are being sidelined as Washington and Moscow plan direct negotiations to try to reach a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.

One is whether to follow the US and Europe into imposing swingeing tariffs on Chinese EV manufacturers before they entirely ...

Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to quickly lift defence spending to 2.5% of GDP or face new military cuts this year - even as he considers deploying troops to Ukraine, Sky News understands.