Trump warns Keir Starmer is risking the 'death of western Europe' for two key reasons

Donald Trump appeared to shatter hopes that his recent state visit to Britain had been a success, after he launched into an unprecedented attack on the UK. Speaking at the United Nations, President Trump condemned the decline of both Britain and Europe, but singled out Sir Keir Starmer's government for particular attack.

The US president warned that Britain's immigration policy, and its "suicidal energy" policy, will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately."He has recently made a number of public criticisms of Ed Miliband's energy policy, insisting that Britain gets drilling in the North Sea to take advantage of the oil gold mine under Scotland's feet. Mr Trump also told European attendees that "Your countries are going to hell" amid a sharp rise in foreign criminals populating their jails.

He continued: "[Renewables] are a joke, they don't work. They're too expensive, they're not strong enough to fire up the plants you need to make your country great.

"The wind doesn't blow, those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate then they have to be rebuilt all the time, then they start to rust and rot. Most expensive energy ever conceived. You're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money...

President Trump blasted Mr Miliband again: "Europe has a long way to go with many countries being on the brink of destruction because of the green energy agenda...

"They've given up their powerful edge in oil and gas, such as closing the great North Sea Oil. Aberdeen was the oil capital of Europe, and there's tremendous oil that hasn't been found in the North Sea.

"I was with the Prime Minister who I respect and like a lot, I said you're sitting with the greatest asset. They essentially closed it by making it so highly taxed that no developer, no oil company can go there.

"They have tremendous oil left and more importantly they have tremendous oil that hasn't even been found yet. And what a tremendous asset for the UK and I hope the Prime Minister is listening, I told it to him three days in a row - that's all he heard - because I want to see them do well.

"I want to see them stop ruining their beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels taking away farmland. But we're not letting this happen in America."

President Trump also condemned Sadiq Khan's leadership of London, blasting him as a "terrible mayor".

He told a bewildered United Nations "I have to say, I look at London - where you have a terrible mayor, terrible terrible mayor - it's been so changed.

"Now they want to go to Shariah Law. But you're in a different country you can't do that."