Sir Keir Starmer is to fulfill with Donald Trump later tonight.
It’s believed to be the primary assembly between the present UK prime minister and former – and probably future – US president.
The pair are set to fulfill in a single day UK time, which is the night in New York, the place Sir Keir is at the moment positioned whereas on a go to to the UN.
David Lammy, the Labour overseas secretary, has met Mr Trump’s vice presidential candidate, JD Vance.
Talking to journalists, Sir Keir reiterated he wished to fulfill each Mr Trump and Kamala Harris forward of the November vote.
Nevertheless, assembly the Democrat is tough as a result of “usual diary challenges”.
Sir Keir stated: “It will be actually to determine a relationship between the 2 of us.
“I’m a great believer in personal relations on the international stage.
“I believe it actually issues that who your counterpart is in any given nation, and know them personally, get to know them nose to nose.
“So it’s really along those lines. I won’t go into what we’ll actually discuss, obviously, but that’s the purpose of it, as you’d expect, ahead of the election.”
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Sir Keir is in New York on the United Nations. Pic: Reuters
Requested if a Trump presidency would depart Ukraine uncovered, Sir Keir stated the character of the “special relationship” between the UK and US “always sits above whoever holds the particular office”.
“The US people will decide who they want as their president, and we will work with whoever is president,” he added.
“I’m not going to speculate on what any particular issues may be on the other side of the election.”
Talking forward of the assembly, Mr Trump stated he thought Sir Keir was “very nice”.
He stated: “I actually think he’s very nice. He ran a great race, he did very well, it’s very early, he’s very popular.”
Mr Trump went on to reward Reform UK chief Nigel Farage as properly, saying: “I think Nigel is great, I’ve known him for a long time.”
“He had a great election too, picked up a lot of seats, more seats than he was allowed to have actually.
“They acknowledged that he received however for some purpose you have got an odd system over there, you would possibly win them however you do not get them.”
This seems to be a misunderstanding of how the UK’s first previous the publish system for elections chooses MPs – Reform received fewer seats in comparison with its vote share as a result of it got here second in lots of seats.
