Exact time Donald Trump to meet Sir Keir Starmer in Scotland today as leaders set for showdown talks
MAJOR SUMMIT Exact time Donald Trump to meet Sir Keir Starmer in Scotland today as leaders set for showdown talks
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DONALD Trump is to meet Sir Keir Starmer at his Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire this morning.
The Prime Minister will engage in "wide-ranging" discussions with the US President on issues including trade and the Israel-Hamas war.
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Trump is to meet Sir Keir Starmer at his Turnberry golf resort this morning
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The Prime Minister will engage in "wide-ranging" discussions with the US President
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John Swinney will also meet the president during his five day visit to the country
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Later, the PM and First Minister John Swinney will attend a banquet-style dinner hosted by the US leader in the north-east.
It comes ahead of him opening a new 18-hole golf course in honour of his late Scottish mother, Mary Anne Macleod, at Menie, Aberdeenshire, on Tuesday.
According to an itinerary published by website rollcall.com, Trump will meet Starmer at noon.
The pair will then hold "bilateral" discussions at 12:30pm.
Starmer is expected to raise the prospect of reviving ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas and the future of tariffs on British steel.
The two leaders have built a rapport on the world stage despite their differing political backgrounds, with Mr Trump praising Sir Keir for doing a "very good job" in office ahead of their talks today.
First Minister John Swinney, who will also meet the president during his five-day visit to the country, said he would urge Mr Trump to apply pressure on Israel to agree to a lasting ceasefire and allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
"I think what's important is that we focus on the solutions that are required now, and the absolutely immediate situation is a necessity for a ceasefire and for humanitarian aid to need to flow into Gaza so that the people of Gaza can be saved from the starvation that they face," Mr Swinney told BBC Breakfast.
"And that is the blunt human reality of the situation that we face, and there must be an intensification of pressure on Israel.
"And I think President Trump is ideally positioned. In fact, he's perhaps uniquely positioned to apply that pressure to Israel to ensure that there is safe passage for humanitarian aid to support the people of Gaza, who face an absolutely unbearable set of circumstances as a consequence of the conflict.
"And a key part of that must be the application of a durable ceasefire, the flow of humanitarian aid and the progress towards a two state solution in the Middle East."
The Republican President will leave for Aberdeen at 3:45pm and arrive in the Granite City at 5:25pm.
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