The Prime Minister joined America in urging Vladimir Putin to now agree to the ceasefire, as he insisted the ‘ball is now in the Russian court’.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is planning a second meeting of allies considering sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as part of any postwar settlement, his spokesman said on Monday.

Sir Keir Starmer hailed a “remarkable breakthrough” in talks between the US and Ukraine after the countries agreed a plan for a 30-day ceasefire. The Prime Minister, who has led European efforts to build a peacekeeping mission in the event an agreement to end the war is reached,

Sir Keir Starmer has seemingly been forced to delay his plan to cut benefits after being spooked by a potential Labour rebellion. As many as 80 Labour MPs were preparing to defy the Prime Minister over his plan to overhaul Britain's "spiralling" welfare system.

Sir Keir Starmer has warned Labour MPs that the Government could not “shrug our shoulders and look away” from problems in the welfare system and elsewhere amid backbench concerns over expected reforms.