Cameron rejects Trump’s ‘peace plan’ as he warns against ‘appeasing’ Putin

David Cameron has rejected Donald Trump’s reported peace plan for Ukraine and warned against ‘appeasing’ Putin just days after his surprise meeting with the former US President to push for extra funding for the war.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has also slated the idea, to give up swathes of territory to Russia, branding it “primitive”.

The foreign secretary said a show of Ukrainian “strength” rather than “appeasement and weakness" would bring the conflict to a halt.

Mr Cameron has defended his face-to-face meeting with Mr Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which came after he previously called him “xenophobic, [and] misogynistic”.

But he appears to have been snubbed by a key Trump ally, House speaker Mike Johnson, as he meets US politicians to urge them to support Ukraine’s war effort.

During an interview with CNN, Lord Cameron said: «Everyone wants to see an end to the killing and an end to the war… But you only get that by backing Ukraine, by showing strength.

»Peace comes through strength, not through appeasement and weakness."

Similar language has previously provoked the ire of senior Republicans.

Earlier this year, he warned Congress not to show “the weakness displayed against Hitler” in the 1930s.

In return right-wing congresswoman and staunch Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene told him to “kiss my ass” and “worry about his own country”.

In a message to Republicans, the ex-prime minister also said the money would be good for US jobs and security and show the West was prepared to stand up to «bullies».

Mr Trump, who hopes to become President again in November, is reportedly ready to push ahead with a ‘peace plan’ that would involve pressuring Ukraine to give up Crimea and the Donbas border region