‘Putin let me down’ – Trump

Donald Trump warned that Russia President Vladimir Putin had “really fto maine down” arsenic helium met Prime Minister Keir Starmer for wide-ranging talks connected Thursday. It was the last time of the US president’s historical UK authorities visit.

A time aft King Charles III treated Trump to royal pageantry astatine Windsor Castle, the Republican flew to Starmer’s Chequers state residence for talks connected thorny issues, including the wars successful Ukraine and Gaza.

Starmer had positioned himself arsenic a span betwixt Trump and European allies, peculiarly connected the warfare successful Ukraine, successful a bid to unafraid much commitments for Kyiv from the US leader.

And his calls, repeated again connected Thursday, for much planetary unit connected Putin look to beryllium gaining much traction with Trump, who slammed the Russian person for continuing the warfare contempt his efforts to halt the fighting.

Trump told a post-talks property league that helium had thought the Ukraine struggle would beryllium the “easiest” to extremity “because of my narration with President Putin, but he’s fto maine down. He’s truly fto maine down.”

He urged European nations to halt buying Russian oil. He said: “If the terms of lipid comes down, Putin’s going to driblet retired of that war.”

‘Unbreakable bond’

Starmer’s lukewarm code with the 79-year-old Trump has won immoderate leniency successful the president’s tariff war, with the British person saying Thursday the commercialized woody the 2 countries signed successful May was the archetypal by the US and besides “the best”.

But Trump said that the brace had “one of our fewer disagreements” astir the UK’s program to recognise a Palestinian state.

The US person besides offered beardown thoughts connected amerciable migration successful the UK, revealing that “I told the Prime Minister I would halt it”, adjacent if it meant calling successful the military.

Tech deal

Earlier successful the day, Trump hailed America’s “unbreakable bond” with Britain arsenic helium and Starmer signed a immense tech deal, boosting ties successful artificial intelligence, quantum computing and atomic energy.

At the signing ceremonial attended by a big of US tech CEOs, Labour person Starmer said helium and Republican Trump were “leaders who genuinely similar each other.”

The woody comes connected the backmost of pledges of £150 cardinal ($205 billion) of concern into the UK from US giants including Microsoft, Google and Blackstone.

Trump had earlier said goodbye to King Charles astatine Windsor, calling him a “great man and a large king” arsenic helium near the castle heading to Chequers.

Appealing to Trump’s admiration for British wartime person Winston Churchill, Starmer led the US president connected a circuit of Churchill artifacts astatine Chequers.

Starmer is facing governmental troubles astatine location aft sacking his ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, implicit his connections to disgraced precocious financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Sex offender Epstein has besides haunted Trump implicit caller weeks, with further revelations astir the pair’s narration successful the 1990s and aboriginal 2000s.

‘Highest honours’

Having negotiated the perchance perilous property league comparatively unscathed, Starmer tin assertion immoderate justification for granting Trump an unprecedented 2nd authorities visit, with concern deals and deepening alignment connected Ukraine to amusement for the diplomatic effort.

Trump was Wednesday lavished with the afloat pomp and condition of the British authorities — the 2nd clip it has done so, aft his archetypal sojourn successful 2019.

“This is genuinely 1 of the highest honours of my life,” Trump said astatine the authorities banquet.

The king meantime hailed Trump’s bid efforts and enactment of Ukraine, aft a time featuring weapon salutes, soldiers connected horseback, and bagpipes, each designed to entreaty to the US president’s fascination...