28 m. ago Starmer to host Trump at Chequers while Melania and Kate team up at Windsor on final day of state visit: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest developments on the final day of Donald Trump's state visit to the UK as the US President heads to Chequers where he will be hosted by Keir Starmer.

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38 m. ago The Latest: Trump and Starmer set to sign tech deal during president's UK state visit

After a day filled with royal pomp and pageantry, President Donald Trump will meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the final day of the U.S. leader’s state visit to Britain

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48 m. ago Trump state visit LIVE: US president to meet Keir Starmer at Chequers after banquet with the King

Trump’s meeting with the Prime Minister comes after 5,000 protesters demonstrated against his visit in central London yesterday

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98 m. ago Swinney was ‘representing Scotland’ at state banquet for Trump, says minister

An SNP MP had earlier suggested attending the event could show support for ‘genocide in Gaza’.

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1 hour ago Keir Starmer gives one of most important press conferences of premiership TODAY

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will today give one of the most important press conferences of his premiership - as he takes to the stage with US President Donald Trump

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2 h. ago Donald Trump LIVE: Keir Starmer to give bombshell press conference with President

Donald Trump will today bid farewell to the King and head to Chequers for crunch talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer - where the pair are expected to discuss trade, security and foreign policy

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2 h. ago Nigel Farage's childish rant after being snubbed from Donald Trump state banquet

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage blamed Keir Starmer for not getting a seat at the state banquet and whined that the Prime Minister 'wants to pretend that I don't exist'

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2 h. ago After quitting the US, Britain seemed like a sanctuary from Trump’s Maga movement. Now I wonder, for how long? | Emma Brockes

I was the envy of the friends I’d left behind. Now it seems prudent to assess how much that nativism will truly take root hereThis time last year, I had just moved back to Britain from the US and was enjoying the almost universal envy of American friends. While they were looking down the barrel of a second Trump presidency with its guarantee of chaos and division, we had elected Keir Starmer by a landslide and were feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. I remember people congratulating me on the prescience of my move, which I absolutely took even though politics hadn’t been part of my decision (not least because, for most of 2024, I had assumed Trump would lose). Anyway, here we are a year later and who’s laughing now?I guess the answer to that is Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, which has somehow managed to harness the anger, disappointment and shame felt by large numbers of people who voted for and were then let down by Brexit, and are now in search of another fire to light. ...

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2 h. ago I quit the US and Britain seemed like a sanctuary from Trump’s Maga movement. Now I wonder, for how long | Emma Brockes

I was the envy of the friends I’d left behind. Now it seems prudent to assess how much that nativism will truly take root hereThis time last year, I had just moved back to Britain from the US and was enjoying the almost universal envy of American friends. While they were looking down the barrel of a second Trump presidency with its guarantee of chaos and division, we had elected Keir Starmer by a landslide and were feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. I remember people congratulating me on the prescience of my move, which I absolutely took even though politics hadn’t been part of my decision (not least because, for most of 2024, I had assumed Trump would lose). Anyway, here we are a year later and who’s laughing now?I guess the answer to that is Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, which has somehow managed to harness the anger, disappointment and shame felt by large numbers of people who voted for and were then let down by Brexit, and are now in search of another fire to light. ...

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2 h. ago Sadiq Khan accuses Israel of committing 'genocide' in Gaza putting himself at odds with Keir Starmer

The Mayor of London said his conclusion was ‘inescapable’ after the UN found that Benjamin Netenyahu’s administration ‘orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years’

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3 h. ago Donald Trump is King's guest of honour on UK visit to meet the Royals

The US president attended a lavish state banquet in Windsor Castle and is now set to meet Keir Starmer

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3 h. ago Keir Starmer to host Donald Trump for talks at Chequers as pomp and pageantry turns to politics

Sir Keir will be hoping to keep the focus of Trump’s visit on investment - as questions about Jeffrey Epstein continue to loom large

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3 h. ago Keir Starmer faces embarrassment at press conference with Donald Trump as PM braces for barrage of questions on Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Downing Street is braced for a barrage of questions about what he knew about Lord Mandelson's relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein when he stands alongside Trump at Chequers.

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3 h. ago 3 awkward subjects that could come up as Donald Trump meets Keir Starmer for state visit

After the pomp and circumstance of a lavish visit to Windsor Castle, Trump and Starmer are down to business today. Here's a few of the potential pitfalls that could be lying in wait

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4 h. ago Man arrested for 'calling for Starmer to be assassinated' at huge Tommy Robinson rally

Arrest comes after a video circulating on social media appeared to show a man saying ‘Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated’

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9 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: If Starmer won't admit that his beloved human rights law is a democratic liability, he'll go the way of the Scottish Earl executed by the guillotine he invented

William Shakespeare would have savoured such a comeuppance. That priggish legalist Sir Keir Starmer has been snagged by, oops, the law.

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9 h. ago UK 'will formally recognise Palestine as a state'... after Trump leaves the country

Sir Keir Starmer will recognise a Palestinian state over the weekend after Donald Trump concludes his state visit to the UK. 

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10 h. ago Keir Starmer faces embarrassment at press conference with Donald Trump as PM braces for barrage of questions on Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Downing Street is braced for a barrage of questions about what he knew about Lord Mandelson's relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein when he stands alongside Trump at Chequers.

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10 h. ago Starmer to host Trump for final day of second state visit to Britain

Sir Keir is hoping to keep the focus of the visit on investment, as questions about Jeffrey Epstein continue to loom large.

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10 h. ago Major report names Labour's 'best shot' at taking on Nigel Farage over small boats

A study by think-tank British Future called on Keir Starmer to pledge to cut small boat crossings by 75% in three years by adopting a 'bold' new strategy with France

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