KEIR Starmer is set to join a crisis summit between European nations on Donald Trump’s plan for Ukraine.
French president Emmanuel Macron is planning to convene an emergency meeting of European leaders on Monday as concerns grew over the US president’s attempts to seize control of the Ukraine peace process.
It comes as world leaders are currently gathered in Germany for the annual Munich Security Conference.
The emergency meeting is expected to discuss US efforts to exclude European leaders from the peace talks, the position Europe should adopt on Ukraine’s future membership of Nato and how Ukraine can be offered security guarantees, either through Nato or some European force.
Downing Street has confirmed it was aware of the proposed meeting and that the Prime Minister would be in attendance.
Starmer will take messages from the meeting to Washington next week, when he will meet Trump.
Sources told The Guardian those in attendance are likely to be Nato secretary general Mark Rutte and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Poland.
Starmer said: “This is a once-in-a-generation moment for our national security where we engage with the reality of the world today and the threat we face from Russia.
“The UK will work to ensure we keep the US and Europe together. We cannot allow any divisions in the alliance to distract from the external enemies we face.”
Speaking at the conference in Munich on Saturday, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg said it was not realistic for Europe’s leaders to be involved.
He said: “It may be like chalk on the blackboard, it may grate a little bit, but I am telling you something that is really quite honest.
“And to my European friends, I would say: ‘Get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or no, be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up [defence] spending.’”
The US is also reported to have sent a letter to European states, asking what troops they are willing to supply to a peacekeeping force.
The Munich Security Conference, set to end on Sunday, has already made headlines after US vice president JD Vance said that he fears free speech is “in retreat” across the continent.
He also made false claims that Scots who pray in their homes could be prosecuted after the recent introduction of buffer zones around Scottish abortion clinics.
The claims have been debunked by Scottish abortion rights campaigners and branded “ludicrous” by Health Secretary Neil Gray.
