'I won't be diverted by SNP rhetoric on Trump visit' - Starmer

The prime minister has dismissed calls from the SNP to scrap an unprecedented second state visit for Donald Trump following a showdown with Ukraine's President Zelensky.

Trump accused Zelensky of "gambling with World War Three" at the White House on Friday, in a fiery exchange described as "deeply troubling" by Scotland's first minister.

John Swinney told the BBC he did not see how a state visit for the US president - offered by the King on Thursday - could go ahead unless he was "absolutely full-square with us" in protecting Ukraine.

However Starmer, who is hosting a summit of European leaders including Zelensky later, accused the SNP of using rhetoric and said he would not be distracted.