Donald Trump’s recent threats to intervene in European elections are “chilling” and leave the UK particularly vulnerable, according to some MPs.

Matt Western, the Labour chair of a joint committee on national security strategy, told the Commons that the US president has made it clear the post-World War 2 consensus between the States and Europe has been “shattered”.

His bleak remarks come after the US published its new National Security Strategy, and included more warnings about Europe’s future than any concern over the ongoing threat coming from Russia.

The new US foreign policy doctrine threatens to meddle directly in European affairs by “cultivating resistance” across the “decaying” continent, and suggests Trump wants to help far-right parties get into office.

Western said: “The

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