David Lammy will meet Donald Trump’s secretary of state in a last-ditch effort to convince the US to back the Chagos Islands deal, The Telegraph understands.

Foreign Secretary will meet his new US counterpart Marco Rubio for the first time to persuade Trump's administration to back the hated scheme ...

Whitehall is watching anxiously as the president of the world’s largest economy unleashes tariffs on America’s neighbours, threatening a full-blown trade war.