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Sir Keir Starmer is to fulfill Donald Trump for the primary time – however not Kamala Harris.
The Prime Minister is because of go to to the Republican presidential candidate at his Trump Tower in New York on Thursday night.
Nevertheless in a blow to Downing Avenue, Sir Keir has not been in a position to prepare an introduction to Democratic candidate Ms Harris, whom he has not met earlier than, earlier than he has to return to the UK.
She is in Washington DC seeing Ukraine’s chief as he presents his ‘victory plan’ to the White Home and it’s unclear if Sir Keir will now be capable to meet her earlier than the US election in simply over a month.
Talking forward of his first encounter with Mr Trump, Sir Keir informed reporters: ‘As you recognize, I’ve mentioned numerous instances, I need to meet each candidates. We have now obtained the chance to fulfill Trump, which is sweet.
Sir Keir Starmer is to fulfill Donald Trump for the primary time at Trump Tower in New York
The Prime Minister is because of meet the Trump, Republican presidential nominee on Thursday night
‘Clearly, I nonetheless need to communicate to Harris as nicely. However you recognize, the standard diary challenges, nevertheless it’s good that this one now has been mounted.’
Requested what his message can be to Mr Trump, the PM replied: ‘It’s going to be actually to determine a relationship between the 2 of us. I am an important believer in private relations on the worldwide stage.
I believe it actually issues that you recognize who your counterpart is in any given nation, and know them you recognize personally, get to know them head to head.’
However, in a blow to Downing Avenue, Sir Keir mentioned ‘diary challenges’ meant he was unable to talk to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris as nicely
However he added: ‘I ought to in all probability add that, I imply that our camp, our embassy, has obtained good relations with each camps and has had for a very long time.
‘So it isn’t the form of begin of one thing, it is the continuation of these good relations which were there with each camps, and that is a extremely good factor that the embassy has been doing.’
The assembly comes on the finish of Sir Keir’s first go to to the United Nations as PM.
