Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK and US were “working together” to improve the security of people in the two countries after speaking with new Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Mr Lammy said he spoke to Mr Rubio, the first member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet to be confirmed last week, on a range of issues including the Indo-Pacific, Ukraine and the Middle East.
The call comes after Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump spoke on the phone for the first time since the president came to power.
“The UK and US are working together to make all our citizens safer and more prosperous,” Mr Lammy said on X.
“I look forward to meeting soon as we further strengthen UK-US ties.”
The Foreign Office said in a statement the two men had discussed their shared links to the Caribbean. The Foreign Secretary has family ties to Guyana and Mr Rubio’s family links to Cuba.
“They both welcomed the opportunity for the UK and the US to work together in alignment to address shared challenges, including the situation in the Middle East, Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, the challenges posed by China and the need for Indo-Pacific security,” the statement said.
US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said the two men had discussed “a range of pressing global issues”.
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