David Lammy to host US Vice President JD Vance at country residence
Lammy and Vance have been meeting regularly on official trips since the foreign secretary started in his role last year, and they are reported to have bonded over their shared Christian faith.The foreign secretary attended mass at Vance's Washington residence on an official visit in March and is now reported to be repaying the favour by allowing his family to stay at his grace and favour mansion.Speaking to BBC Breakfast last summer, Lammy said: "Let me just say on JD Vance that I've met him now on several occasions, we share a similar working-class backgrounds with addiction issues in our family."We've written books on that, we've talked about that, and we're both Christians. So I think I can find common ground with JD Vance."The two are expected to hold a bilateral meeting before being joined by their families at Chevening.The vice president's UK visit comes a few weeks after Donald Trump travelled to Scotland, on a private visit to his golf courses.Trump met Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as well as EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, agreeing a trade deal with the bloc, and will return for a full state visit in September.
Sign up for our Politics Essential newsletter to keep up with the inner workings of Westminster and beyond.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Independent
25 minutes ago
- The Independent
JD Vance reveals his favorite meme of himself is extremely x-rated
JD Vance has revealed that his favourite meme of himself is 'very inappropriate' but 'very funny'. Appearing on The Katie Miller Podcast on Monday (11 August), the US vice president said the meme he likes the most began circulating after the Pope died. The meme in question features the Pope, Vance's wife Usha, and a couch. A fake passage from Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy about having sex with a couch when he was younger circulated during the 2024 election cycle. The meme suggested that if these were Vance's options for the game of "F***, Marry, Kill," then the he would marry Usha, kill the Pope, and f*** the couch. He said the meme was 'pretty good', adding that he hoped someone who was right wing thought of it.
Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
Trump says 25% odds Putin meeting ends in FAILURE as he's accused of selling out to Russia with minerals deal to stop war
President Donald Trump said Thursday that there's a '25 percent' chance his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is a failure. Trump gave those odds during a phone interview Thursday morning with Brian Kilmeade, as part of his Fox News radio show. The president leaves first thing Friday for his meeting with Putin, which is taking place in Anchorage, Alaska. Trump played coy when asked by Kilmeade what he might offer Putin to entice him to stop his three and a half year assault on neighboring Ukraine. 'Well, I'd rather not say,' the president answered. 'Because I don't want to play my hand in public.' He said there were 'economics incentives and disincentives' and that the disincentives were 'maybe more important in a way.' 'You know, Russia's got tremendous potential,' Trump continued. 'They have the largest piece of land by far. Massive.' The Telegraph reported Wednesday night that Trump planned to incentivize Putin by offering him access to rare earth minerals, which garnered the president criticism from anti-Trump former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger. 'What an absolute weak a** sellout,' Kinzinger posted Wednesday night to X. A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail's request for comment on the Telegraph's report. During his call with Kilmeade, Trump tempered expectations for the meeting, which marks the first time a U.S. president is meeting face-to-face with Putin since the Russian leader invaded Ukraine in February 2022. 'I don't know if we're going to get an immediate ceasefire,' Trump said. He reiterated that he hoped the Alaska meeting would eventually set up a 'peace deal' and would open the door to there being a second meeting that would include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 'And depending on what happens with my meeting, I'm going to be calling President Zelensky and let's get him over to wherever we're going to meet,' Trump said. 'I don't know where we're going to have the second meeting but we have an idea of three different locations,' he revealed. 'Including the possibility, because it would be, by far, the easiest of staying in Alaska.' Earlier Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the day would conclude with Trump and Putin side-by-side giving a press conference. On Kilmeade's show, Trump said that plan wasn't set in stone. 'I'm going to have a press conference. I don't know if it's going to be a joint - we haven't even discussed it,' the president said. 'I think it might be nice to have a joint and then separates, so something like that will happen.' 'Or if the meeting doesn't end well, we'll have a press conference and head out, I'll head back to Washington,' the president added. But Trump emphasized that the Alaska meeting 'sets up the second meeting.' 'The second meeting is going to be very important, because that's going to be a meeting where they can make a deal,' he said. On a call with Zelensky and European leaders Wednesday, Trump was frank with Ukraine's president that there would likely need to be 'land swaps.' Zelensky has resisted the idea of giving up any of Ukraine's territory to Putin. 'And I don't want to use the word divvy things up, but you know, to a certain extent, it's not a bad term, OK? But there will be a give and take as to boundaries, lands, etc. etc.,' Trump told the Fox News host. 'But there is a 25 percent chance this meeting will not be a successful meeting,' the president added.
BBC News
an hour ago
- BBC News
US President Donald Trump to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska
US President Donald Trump is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks in Alaska on Friday. The main reason is for both leaders to discuss the war in officials on both sides have met in recent years, this will be the Presidents' first meeting since 2016, and the first since Russia invaded Ukraine. But what do we know about the meeting and what we can expect to happen? Read on to find out. When and where are President Trump and President Putin meeting? US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are due to meet in Anchorage, the largest city in the US state of Alaska. The venue for the high-profile meeting is the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson - Alaska's largest military base. The summit will take place on Friday 15 August 2025 and is scheduled to begin at 11:30 local time (20:30 UK time).Did you know: The USA bought Alaska off Russia in 1867. Why are President Trump and President Putin meeting? The main reason that the two men are set to meet is to discuss how to end the war in war started on 24 February, 2022, when Russia invaded conflict has caused a lot of destruction to towns and cities, with many buildings in Ukraine damaged, and millions of people forced to leave their both Russia and Ukraine have said that they want the war to end, both countries want different things from any peace leaders have been looking for a path to end the conflict, and Donald Trump has often spoken about how he can be the person to make it can read more about the history between Russia and Ukraine here. Who is attending the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska? As it stands, only President Trump and President Putin - as well as a small group of officials from both countries - are due to President Volodymyr Zelensky is not expected to attend. Earlier this week, President Trump said: "I would say he could go, but he's been to a lot of meetings."He added however, that President Zelensky would be the first person he would call thought that President Putin has requested that President Zelensky not be invited, although the White House has previously said that President Trump was willing to hold talks in which all three leaders were present. What will happen at the meeting between President Trump and President Putin? Even though Ukraine will be the main topic of the meeting, the two leaders are also expected to discuss other such as US-Russia cooperation and trade between the two countries are due to be debated to officials, President Trump and President Putin will first hold one-to-one talks with interpreters present.A group lunch will also take place, as well as a press conference after the joint news conference will be attended by both President Trump and President Putin and will serve to "summarise the results of the negotiations" according to Russian officials. When did President Trump and President Putin last meet? The summit in Alaska will be the first known face-to-face meeting between the two leaders in six pair are believed to have last met at the G20 summit in 2019, which took place in the city of Osaka in Japan. It'll also be their first meeting since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and President Trump's return to office as US President earlier this year. What have world leaders said ahead of the meeting between President Trump and President Putin? On Thursday, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street. In a post on social media, the Ukrainian leader says the pair spoke of their expectations for Friday's Alaska meeting and the security guarantees Ukraine has been calling for to ensure long-lasting a statement after their meeting, Sir Keir said that there is a chance for "progress" at the Alaska summit "as long as Putin takes action to prove he is serious about peace".Earlier this week, President Trump met with European leaders to discuss his upcoming meeting with President Putin. Afterwards, Trump said that Russia would face "very severe" consequences unless it stopped its war in House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt added that President Trump is hoping to use "diplomacy and negotiation" to end the war in Ukraine."There are sanctions and many other measures that the president can use if he has to," she of their meeting in Alaska, President Putin praised Trump's "sincere efforts" to end the Ukraine war - with the Kremlin saying the leaders will discuss the situation in "one-on-one" talks.
