The prime minister has vowed not to choose between allies of the UK in a speech on foreign policy. Attacking the Conservatives for having "turned their back on the world", Sir Keir Starmer said his government would instead strengthen ties with both the US and the EU.

The UK doesn’t need to trade off its special relationship with the US against its European alliances, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, despite concern that President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to to ramp-up tariffs will drive a wedge between the allies.

The prime minister gave his first big foreign policy speech since the election of Donald Trump as he addressed the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at Mansion House