28 July 2025, 18:14

By Gina Davidson

There is just no guessing what Donald Trump will say at any given time.

His visit to his Turnberry golf course has proved that once again.

Which is why, for the Prime Minister, meetings with the President are a high wire act; how to keep on his good side but still talk hard truths on the matters where you want to change his mind.

Starmer has already proved he can do it by negotiating the UK-US trade deal.

Today those finely-tuned diplomatic skills were put to use again.

The President and the Prime Minister discussed matters of huge importance - how to ease the pain of those starving and suffering in Gaza, how to get Israel and Hamas to agree a ceasefire, how to end the war in Ukraine.

And it appeared that Keir Starmer had persuaded the President to speak more strongly about the........

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