US President Donald Trump has accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of overseeing an immigration “disaster” in the UK. The President took aim at Sir Keir numerous times during a furious press conference at the White House on Monday.

Mr Trump said of Sir Keir: “I think he’s a nice man, but I disagree with him on two things. Primarily, his immigration policy is a disaster, and his energy policy is a disaster – and they’re about the biggest policies you can have. You’ve allowed millions and millions and millions of people to come into your country that shouldn’t be there. And, by the way, that’s all over Europe.” The US President also repeated his previous assertion that “unfortunately Keir is no Winston Churchill” and said the UK PM “doesn’t produce”.

The President told reporters: “Even the aircraft carriers, he would only send them after we essentially won.

“I mean, he’s sending them when there are no planes left, when the missiles are down to like 8 per cent of the missiles.”

Asked whether the clashes had damaged his relationship with Sir Keir, Mr Trump said: “Well, he hasn’t been supportive, and I think it’s a big mistake. You know, they make a lot of money on trade with the United States. I went out of my way. As you know, they couldn’t make a deal with [Joe] Biden, because they had no real administration to make a deal, Biden. But we made a deal. We made a good deal for them and, frankly, probably wasn’t appreciated.

“I do look forward to seeing the King. He’s going to be coming, as you know, very shortly, but, no, I was disappointed, because Keir was willing to send two aircraft carriers after we won, because essentially… there’s no threat for the aircraft carriers right now. And I said, no, no, we want things sent before the war, not after the war is won.

“So, yeah, I’m disappointed with Keir. I like him, I think he’s a nice man, but I’m disappointed.”

Also asked if he had confidence in the PM, Mr Trump said: “It’s not for me, it’s really for the people of the UK to have confidence. I mean, I’ve been very critical of Keir – and I did it in a friendly way – I said, if you don’t change your energy thing and get away from windmills and go back to oil and gas.

“You have something that no other country has, very few countries have anything like it: The North Sea. You have some of the greatest oil and oil deposits in the entire world. The North Sea, they don’t use it.”

Mr Trump’s comments come just a day after Sir Keir insisted that the UK would not get dragged into a “wider war” after the US and Israel launched attacks on Tehran. France and Germany have also dismissed the idea of taking an active role during the ongoing Iran conflict.

The PM – who hosted Volodymyr Zelensky in Downing Street on Tuesday (March 17) – stressed the importance of keeping the focus on Ukraine‘s campaign against Russian invasion.