Starmer to meet Trump for the first time

The Prime Minister volition conscionable erstwhile President Donald Trump later.

It volition beryllium the archetypal clip Sir Keir Starmer has met the Republican campaigner for US President.

Sir Keir is successful New York for the United Nations General Assembly, but volition marque clip to conscionable Trump astatine his New York basal - Trump Tower.

The premier curate said it was “good” helium had the accidental to conscionable the Republican statesmanlike nominee and that it was “really to found a narration betwixt the 2 of us”.

Sir Keir volition not conscionable the Democratic statesmanlike candidate, Kamala Harris, connected this trip.

They person not met earlier either.

He has antecedently said helium would similar to spot some candidates up of the US statesmanlike predetermination connected 5 November.

The premier curate said helium “obviously” inactive wants to talk to Vice-President Kamala Harris, but that determination were the “usual diary challenges”.

He added: “I'm a large believer successful idiosyncratic relations connected the planetary stage. I deliberation it truly matters that you cognize who your counterpart is successful immoderate fixed country, and cognize them personally, get to cognize them look to face.”

Harris is successful Washington for talks alongside President Joe Biden with President Volodymyr Zelensky, arsenic a enactment betwixt the Ukrainian person and the Trump run escalated.

Republicans person reacted angrily to the Ukrainian president's determination to sojourn an arms mill successful the US president's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with respective apical Democrats, and it present appears Zelensky volition not conscionable Trump as had been expected.

When asked by reporters if a Donald Trump presidency would permission the UK much exposed connected the planetary signifier erstwhile it comes to enactment for Ukraine, the premier curate said: “The archetypal happening I deliberation is important to accidental successful narration to this is we've evidently had a peculiar narration with the US for a agelong time, forged successful truly hard circumstances.

"That ever sits supra whoever holds the peculiar office, either successful the US oregon the UK.”

He said the narration was astir apt arsenic "as beardown present arsenic it's ever been" successful narration to the Middle East and Ukraine".

Starmer added: "The US radical volition determine who they privation arsenic their president, and we volition enactment with whoever is resident, arsenic you would expect. I’m not going to speculate connected what immoderate peculiar issues whitethorn beryllium the different broadside of the election.”