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UK leader Starmer to press Trump on Gaza, trade in Scotland talks
The meeting on Monday at Trump’s Turnberry golf resort comes as European countries express growing alarm at the situation in Gaza
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will press US President Donald Trump on ending “the unspeakable suffering” in Gaza and also talk trade when they meet on Monday at the US president’s golf resort in Scotland.
The talks will come a day after the US and the European Union reached a landmark deal to end a transatlantic stand-off over tariffs and avert a full-blown trade war.
Starmer is expected to push Trump on urging a revival of stalled ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas as a hunger crisis deepens in the besieged Palestinian territory.
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The meeting at Turnberry, southwestern Scotland, comes as European countries express growing alarm at the situation in Gaza, and as Starmer faces domestic pressure to follow France’s lead and recognise a Palestinian state.
The leaders will also discuss implementing a recent UK–US trade deal, as well as efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to a British government statement issued late on Sunday.
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But it is the growing threat of starvation faced by Palestinians in Gaza that is set to dominate the talks on the third full day of Trump’s trip to the land where his mother was born.
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