The meeting, hosted by Foreign Secretary David Lammy and the US Vice President JD Vance, follows confirmation Trump and Putin will hold talks in Alaska next week.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy is hosting the US vice-president at his country retreat of Chevening.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy's 17th-century official county residence was the setting for U.K.-U.S. bilateral talks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance.