JD Vance has been branded 'deeply disrespectful' after he dismissed Britain's military contributions amid a quickly developing transatlantic row between the UK and US over Ukraine aid. British politicians have demanded an apology from the US Vice President after he brushed off Sir Keir Starmer's offer of a force of UK and French troops to keep the

The vice president denied that he was talking about Britain and France when he downplayed “20,000 troops from some random country” protecting Ukraine. No other countries have pledged troops.

Liberal Democrat defence spokesperson Helen Maguire, a former captain in the Royal Military Police who served in Iraq, urged the UK's ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, to call on Vance to apologise for the comments.