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US president Donald Trump has hit out at the UK’s green energy policies and claimed mass migration had left Europe unrecognisable.

In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Trump criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s policies on North Sea oil and gas.

Mr Trump, who has repeatedly denounced what he calls the green energy “scam”, said the UK Government had made it “impossible” for oil firms to exploit North Sea reserves.

He said: “The United Kingdom produces just one-third of the total energy from all sources that it did in 1999 think of that, one-third and they’re sitting on top of the North Sea, one of the greatest reserves anywhere in the world, but they don’t use it, and that’s one reason why their energy has reached catastrophically low levels, with equally high prices.

“High prices, very low levels. Think of that  one-third and you’re sitting on top of the North Sea.

“They like to say, ‘Well, you know, that’s depleted’. It’s not depleted. It’s got 500 years. They haven’t even found the oil, the North Sea is incredible.

“They don’t let anybody drill, environmentally, they don’t let them drill. They make it impossible for the oil companies to go. They take 92% of the revenues.

“So the oil companies say, ‘We can’t do it’.”