Sir Keir Starmer said there is a “huge amount of common ground” between him and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after they met at Downing Street. The UK Prime Minister welcomed Ms Meloni for a bilateral meeting on Sunday before the summit of political leaders in London focused on Ukraine and wider European security.

Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday night called for an immediate summit between the United States, Europe and its allies saying that all splits in the West "make us weaker" after Friday's row in the White House between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni to 10 Downing Street ahead of international defence summit in Lancaster House where peace plan for Ukraine to be decided.

At a summit meeting in London, European leaders, Canada and Turkey pledged to continue military support for Ukraine, two days after a disastrous meeting of Ukrainian president Zelenskyy with U.S. president Donald Trump at the White House.

Keir Starmer has been joined by Emmanuel Macron, Ursula von der Leyen and other key European leaders as they begin to arrive at Lancaster House for a London summit. The meeting will be the biggest European peace summit since the end of the Second World War.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni walks outside Lancaster House, London, as she arrives for a European leaders’ summit on the situation in Ukraine (Toby Melville/PA) Number 10 said that ...