UK’s David Cameron meets with Donald Trump during US visit
- UK foreign secretary’s meeting with Trump came at the start of a trip to Washington
- Cameron will push to shore up US support for Ukraine as aid stalls in Congress
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron met Donald Trump on Monday, British officials said, ahead of talks with senior members of President Joe Biden’s administration on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Cameron sat down with the former US president and Republican challenger to Biden in November’s closely watched election, one month after the two Americans became their parties’ presumptive White House nominees.
“Ahead of his visit to Washington, the Foreign Secretary met former president Trump in Florida,” said a UK Foreign Office spokesman on Tuesday.
“It is standard practice for ministers to meet with opposition candidates as part of their routine international engagement,” he added.
Cameron is due in Washington for discussions on Tuesday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
While British officials were not drawn on the substance of the Trump talks, the Foreign Office said Cameron would push, in his meeting with Blinken, for a “full, urgent, and transparent investigation” into Israeli air strikes that killed seven aid workers in Gaza last week.
