PM suggests maintaining links with US president will be part of his continued responsibility to UK-US relationship

Donald Trump has agreed to stay in touch with Keir Starmer after he steps down from No 10 despite his increasingly tense relationship with the UK prime minister over recent months.

After meeting at the Nato summit in Ankara, Starmer suggested that maintaining links with the US president would be part of his continued responsibilities to the strategic relationship between the two countries.

Ceasefire appears close to collapse as two militaries target each other after after Iran strikes three commercial vessels

Iran and the US have threatened to reignite their conflict after the most extensive exchange of fire since an interim deal was signed last month.

On a chaotic day at the Nato summit in Ankara, Donald Trump said the US would probably hit the country again on Wednesday evening and renewed his threat to take control of the strategic Kharg Island in the strait of Hormuz - a move that could provoke Iran to hit energy installations across the Gulf states.

President calls Iranian leadership ‘scum’, rails against alliance, repeats demand for Greenland and threatens Spain

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Donald Trump has declared that the ceasefire with Iran is over as he arrived at the Nato summit in Ankara, launching an angry broadside in which he complained about the military alliance and repeated his demand for Greenland.

The US president, sitting alongside the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, called Iran’s leadership scum and “sick people”, and added that he was “very upset” with the alliance and even threatened to cut off all trade with Spain in a row over defence spending.

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During a bilateral meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Nato summit in Ankara, Donald Trump was asked about Iran, and he repeated his earlier criticism.

On Wednesday, while speaking to reporters alongside Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary general, Trump said that memorandum of understanding signed last month by the US and Iran is “over”, in the wake of the latest strikes.