Key takeaways from the Trump-Starmer press conference

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump held a joint press conference at the end of the US President’s second state visit to England.

PM’s press conference at Country Residence Checkers, a press conference, which lasted slightly below an hour, saw leaders’ questions from world affairs to domestic politics.

Here are the main points.

England close recognition It was a potential flare point of the Palestinian state, Trump said that the movement could reward Hamas before.

However, Trump, who was asked directly about Britain’s plans, noted that there was a “dispute” with Starmer, and he added that it was only one of the couple for a good measure.

Starmer emphasized that the timing of the British decision, which will take place in the coming days, said that there was nothing to do with Trump’s visit and that a “peace plan” in the Middle East should be seen in the context of a general plan.

And he added that Hamas, a terrorist group in England, could play “parts” in the future Palestinian state.

These comments were warmly welcomed by Trump, reaching the podium to give US President Starmer a pat back.

Trump was also given the chance to comment on another difficult political problem for Starmer – Efforts to stop those who came illegal to England Record Number of small boat passage This year on the British channel.

However, this time the US president did not underestimate his words, Starmer should potentially involve the army and illegal migration “destroyed countries within the countries” said.

Trump referred to the US approach to guaranteeing the US border and said the couple had previously argued during their special meetings.

“I think your situation is very similar.

Starmer said that the first flight under immigrant returns was dealing with France Previous DeadIt is called “an important step” in the problem of small boats.

An area where the couple’s joining was to condemn Russia on full -scale Ukrainian invasion after Trump said that he could do it at the beginning of this week. Apply more harsh sanctions If NATO allies meet certain conditions, in the country.

Starmer condemned the last Russian missile attacks that damaged the British Council building in Kiev, and said that the last actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin were not the actions of someone who wants peace.

The US President said that Putin “really disappointed me” and admitted that he thought it would be one of the easier conflicts to solve the Russian-Ukraine war.

However, a few months ago, he added that he did not regret the Peace Summit in Alaska with Putin and that he felt a “obligation” to help the war to end due to the enormous loss of life in conflict.

After Trump’s Vice President JD Vance, another potential tension was the subject of free conversation. boiling attack About European democracies, including England earlier this year.

However, he asked if he had agreed with Vance and whether the problem was left with Starmer as an important field of dispute, Trump chose not to comment on the next question.

Starmer promised that Britain would protect the free speech as “jealousy and violent” and called it one of the “founding values ​​of the country.

However, free speech should be balanced against the need for protection, such as protecting children from pedophiles and “selling suicide” online.

The state’s visit took place a week after Sir Keir’s former Labor Minister Lord Mandelson, who was convicted of sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, as a US Ambassador to his past friendship.

This had the potential to be strange for the prime minister and the US president, who had now established a friendship with Epstein, before falling with him in the early 2000s before the conviction of the late financier to demand prostitution.

Mandelson asked Sky News correspondent Beth Rigby Trump, who referred to as the “elephant in the room”, whether he sympathized with his dismissed labor peer.

Although he was shaking hands with Lord Mandelson at the Oval Office earlier this year, “I don’t actually know him” before he claimed that Trump Sir Keir would be better placed to talk about the issue.

The Prime Minister repeated his previous claim that he dismissed Lord Mandelson after new information about his relationship with Epstein.