Sir Keir Starmer and other international leaders have called the US-drafted peace plan for Ukraine “a basis which will require additional work”, as Donald Trump said his proposal was not a final offer but the war must end now.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Saturday, he said: “I would like to get to peace. It should have happened a long time ago. The Ukraine war with Russia should have never happened.

“If I were President, it never would have happened. One way or the other, we have to get it ended.”

In a joint statement issued on Saturday following their meeting at the Johannesburg G20 summit, shunned by Trump, the leaders also stressed that “borders must not be changed by force”.

Sir Keir spoke to the US President on the phone and agreed their teams will work t

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