Piers Morgan has said he has had a "worse scene" with Donald Trump than that unleashed on Volodymyr Zelensky.

The TV host told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the barrage on Friday was "unedifying". Trump and Vice President JD Vance rounded on the Ukrainian President in front of cameras, sparking fears that a peace deal could be scuppered.

Mr Morgan said: "It's not easy to deal with Donald Trump. I've known him 20 years. I've negotiated... I've had a worse scene with him shouting at me louder over an interview where somebody had leaked stuff to him about negative things I said about him.

"So I've been in that environment and he can get pretty hostile very quickly, but he can also calm down very quickly."

He went on to say the spat demonstrated how Americans feel they are "taken for granted" by Europe. He said: "Look, you have to understand the American position and where Trump comes from and why I think things got fractious in the Oval Office.

"Yes, it was unedifying. It was also riveting. And it was also very revealing about where both sides are thinking about this. And I think the key thing with the Americans, they are sick and tired of being taken as they think they're taken for granted by Europe."

During the same show Keir Starmer revealed he felt "uncomfortable" watching the scene on Friday - but said his focus was on "rolling up his sleeves" and speaking to all sides rather than voicing his outrage. He told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he is confident that Trump "wants lasting peace".

Asked about his reaction to the vicious agreement, he said: "Yes, I felt uncomfortable. Nobody wants to see that.

"But the important thing is how to react to that. There are a number of different routes people could go down. One is to ramp up the rhetoric as to how outraged they are... The other is to do what I did, which is roll up our sleeves, pick up the phone. "

He told the BBC host: "I was in my office, nobody wants to see that. And later that day I picked up the phone to President Trump, and I picked up the phone to President Zelensky because to my mind the focus has to be a lasting peace in Ukraine, which is, really important for the security defense of Europe and of the United Kingdom.

"And therefore, I took to the phone and that was my response."