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Good morning. Keir Starmer has a lead role in the Trump show today. He is flying to Scotland for a meeting with the US president, who is combining a golfing holiday with meetings with leaders like Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and John Swinney, Scotland\u2019s first minister.<\/p>\n
The von der Leyen talks culminated in the announcement of what Trump described as a \u201cpowerful\u201d trade deal (albeit one that only means the Trump tariffs won\u2019t damage US-EU trade as much as they otherwise might have done; it is not an improvement on the status quo ante.)<\/p>\n
Starmer is set to spend a lot of time with Trump today. He is arriving before lunch, and he is not flying back to London until this evening, after what No 10 describes as a \u201cprivate engagement\u201d (dinner?) at Trump\u2019s golf course in Aberdeenshire. There is a bilateral scheduled, but Trump does not like long meetings and Downing Street has not said much about what else the two men will be doing. Starmer has reportedly been working out how to respond if Trump invites him to play a round of golf. According to my colleague Eleni Courea, who is Scotland covering the trip, that is one humiliation that Trump won\u2019t be inflicting on the PM, who is a good footballer but a total novice at Trump\u2019s favourite sport. But Starmer will also be flying to Aberdeen with the president on Air Force One, we expect. In White House terms, that is a token of respect.<\/p>\n
Normally when political leaders meet, they speak to the press afterwards, to brief on what they have agreed. Today Trump and Starmer will hold their main event with reporters before their talks and so we are not expecting them to announce anything of substance at this point. Instead, we may just end up with Trump giving us one of his stream-of-consciousness peformances. While he has been in Scotland, these have include rants about European immigration (\u201cyou got to stop this horrible invasion that\u2019s happening to Europe \u2013 immigration is killing Europe\u201d) and wind turbines (\u201cwhen they start to rust and rot in eight years you can\u2019t really turn them off, you can\u2019t burn them \u2013 the whole thing is a con job\u201d).<\/p>\n
At one point it was expected that Trump and Starmer would use the meeting today to tie up loose ends in the US-UK trade deal, particularly relating to steel tariffs. But Jonathan Reynolds<\/strong>, the business secretary, has been giving interviews this morning and he told the Today programme he \u201cwouldn\u2019t expect announcements from this visit\u201d on trade.<\/p>\n Instead, the situation in Gaza may be the focus of the Trump\/Starmer talks and, as Pippa Crerar<\/strong> reports, Starmer will urge Trump to use his influence with Israel to get Benjamin Netanyahu to resume peace talks with Hamas.<\/p>\n This is a difficult subject for Starmer because the PM is coming under increasing pressure from members of his own cabinet to recognise the state of Palestine. Doing this would anger Trump, who takes the Israeli view that this would amount to rewarding Hamas for the 7 October attack. And it would not have any immediate practical impact on the situation in Gaza. But Labour MPs are increasingly coming round to the view that, as Wes Streeting<\/strong>, the health secretary put it, it is best to recognise the state of Palestine \u201cwhile there is a state of Palestine left to recognise\u201d. As Mark Malloch Brown<\/strong>, a former UN deputy secretary-general and a minister in Gordon Brown\u2019s government, told the Observer yesterday, recognition would also send a message to Israel that \u201cyou can\u2019t bomb your way out of the reality that you\u2019re going to have to negotiate with the Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n In interviews this morning Reynolds<\/strong> said that the UK was committed to recognising the state of Palestine; it was just a matter of timing, he said.<\/p>\n He told ITV\u2019s Good Morning Britain:<\/p>\n It is a case of when, not if.<\/p>\n It\u2019s about how we use this moment, because you can only do it once to have a meaningful breakthrough.<\/p>\n And on Sky News he went further, implying he expects recognition to happen during this parliament.<\/p>\n In this parliament, yes. I mean, if it delivers the breakthrough that we need.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t forget, we can only do this once. If we do it in a way which is tokenistic, doesn\u2019t produce the end to this conflict, where do we go to next?<\/p>\n Here is the agenda for the day.<\/p>\n Morning:<\/em> Rachel Reeves, chancellor, is on a visit in Bournemouth.<\/p>\n 11am:<\/em> Nigel Farage, Reform UK leader, holds a press conference with \u201ca special guest\u201d. According to the Daily Mail, he is Colin Sutton, a former detective chief inspector, who is joining the party as a crime adviser.<\/p>\n 11.30am:<\/em> Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.<\/p>\n Around noon:<\/em> Keir Starmer is due to arrive at President Trump\u2019s Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, Scotland, where the two leaders are due to speak to the media at around 12.30pm. They will hold a formal meeting in the afternoon before flying to Aberdeen, where Trump owns another golf course and where they are expected to have a private dinner.<\/p>\n Around lunchtime:<\/em> Kemi Badenoch is expected to record a media clip.<\/p>\n Afternoon:<\/em> The Stop Trump Coalition holds a protest outside Trump\u2019s Aberdeenshire golf course.<\/p>\n Late afternoon:<\/em> Angela Rayner, deputy PM, hosts a reception for the Lionesses following victory in the Women\u2019s Euro 2025.<\/p>\n Also, David Lammy, foreign secretary, is in New York for a meeting on a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n If you want to contact me, please post a message below the line when comments are open (normally between 10am and 3pm at the moment), or message me on social media. I can\u2019t read all the messages BTL, but if you put \u201cAndrew\u201d in a message aimed at me, I am more likely to see it because I search for posts containing that word.<\/p>\n If you want to flag something up urgently, it is best to use social media. You can reach me on Bluesky at @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social. The Guardian has given up posting from its official accounts on X, but individual Guardian journalists are there, I still have my account, and if you message me there at @AndrewSparrow, I will see it and respond if necessary.<\/p>\n I find it very helpful when readers point out mistakes, even minor typos. No error is too small to correct. And I find your questions very interesting too. I can\u2019t promise to reply to them all, but I will try to reply to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.50 EDT<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/span>Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A reader asks:<\/p>\n Is there any indication of the costs associated with policing an American private individual holidaying on his own property in Scotland?<\/p>\n I have not seen any figures. But this is what John Swinney<\/strong>, Scotland\u2019s first minister, said when he was asked how much the policing operation cost on BBC Breakfast this morning.<\/p>\n All of that will be worked out and we\u2019ll address that with Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority, and we\u2019re talking to the United Kingdom government about these questions, but it\u2019s important that we have a secure policing operation.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also important that members of the public who wish to express their point of view, who want to protest about the visit or about other issues, are able to go about their exercise of their democratic right to protest. That\u2019s exactly what they\u2019ve been able to do since Friday, and that\u2019s the way it should be.<\/p>\n Swinney also said the government should be paying to protect Trump.<\/p>\n The security arrangements have gone well since President Trump arrived on Friday, and that\u2019s as it should be, because we\u2019ve got an obligation to make sure that when we have major international visitors, when they come to Scotland, that they are protected and able to go about their activities.<\/p>\n Share<\/span>An ad van on the streets of Aberdeen this morning highlighting Donald Trump\u2019s relationship with the disgraced financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.<\/span> Photograph: Hannah McKay\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n In a column for the Daily Record, John Swinney<\/strong>, Scotland\u2019s first minister, has said that, if the SNP get a majority in next year\u2019s Holyrood elections, that will be a mandate for a second independence referendum. He said:<\/p>\n Over the next few months, the SNP will set out some radical policies that we know will transform Scotland \u2013 ambitious ideas that can be realised with the powers of independence.<\/p>\n For us to achieve that independence, the first step is to secure a legal referendum recognised by all. In 2011 we secured that reliable and dependable route when the SNP achieved a majority of seats at Holyrood.<\/p>\n That is the only mechanism that has been proven to deliver such a vote – so that is what we need to deliver again.<\/p>\n That is why I have submitted a motion to the SNP conference proposing that we work to deliver a majority of SNP MSPs in the Scottish parliament to secure that referendum on independence.<\/p>\n Even if the SNP does win a majority next year, the Scottish government would need the consent of Westminster to hold legally-binding independence referendum. But after the SNP victory in 2011, the then PM, David Cameron, decided it was not feasible for the UK government to block a referendum requested by the majority of MSPs.<\/p>\n In response, the anti-independence Scotland in Union<\/strong> campaign said this intervention showed \u201cprecisely why we need to get rid of the SNP at the next election\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n John Swinney<\/strong>, Scotland\u2019s first minister, will reportedly be joining Donald Trump for dinner in Aberdeen this evening, ahead of a bilateral meeting they have having tomorrow.<\/p>\n In interviews this morning ahead of the meetings, Swinney said that he would ask the president to exempt Scotch whisky from US trade tariffs. He told BBC Breakfast:<\/p>\n Tariffs are very important for the Scottish economy and obviously scotch whisky is a unique product.<\/p>\n It can only be produced in Scotland. It\u2019s not a product that can be produced in any other part of the world. So there\u2019s a uniqueness about that, which I think means there is a case for it to be taken out of the tariffs arrangement that is now in place.<\/p>\n Obviously the trade deal with the United States provides a degree of stability for economic connections with the United States, but the application of tariffs is increasing the costs for the Scotch whisky industry. So one of my objectives will be to make the case to President Trump that Scotch whiskey should be exempted from those tariffs \u2026<\/p>\n The tariffs just now are costing the industry about \u00a34m each week, so it\u2019s a very significant burden on the industry.<\/p>\n Asked if his previous claim that Trump\u2019s call for the displacement of the Gazan people out of the region amounted to \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d would cause problems when the two men met face to face, Swinney replied:<\/p>\n I think what\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n And I think President Trump is ideally positioned. In fact, he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Nigel Farage,<\/strong> the Reform UK leader, is holding a press conference now. There is a live feed here.<\/p>\n I will post the main points after Farage has finished.<\/p>\n This is what PA Media have filed about the Colin Sutton appointment.<\/p>\n A top ex-detective who spearheaded a series of high profile murder investigations will join Reform UK as its adviser on police and crime.<\/p>\n Colin Sutton, who led the investigation into serial killer Levi Bellfield, is to help Nigel Farage\u2019s<\/em> party develop its pledge to halve crime in five years.<\/p>\n Farage<\/em> has said he will spend \u00a37bn on policies towards this goal, including by recruiting 30,000 extra police officers.<\/p>\n The Reform leader told the Mail on Sunday newspaper that ex-police officer Mr Sutton would be a \u201chuge asset\u201d to his party.<\/p>\n Sutton told the paper he would give all frontline officers tasers, reopen 300 closed police stations, and stop investigations into online arguments as part of Reform\u2019s policing offer.<\/p>\n The two men will appear together at a press conference on Monday morning.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Keir Starmer\u2019s plane has landed at Prestwick airport outside Glasgow, the BBC is reporting. That means he should be at Turnberry within the hour.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Here are more pictures from Turnberry this morning.<\/p>\n <\/span>Police officers guarding the Trump Turnberry golf course.<\/span> Photograph: Phil Noble\/Reuters<\/span>A police officer at the Trump Turnberry golf course this morning.<\/span> Photograph: Andrew Milligan\/PA<\/span>Police officers at the Trump Turnberry.<\/span> Photograph: Phil Noble\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n When President Macron announced last week that France will officially recognise the state of Palestine in September, the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong> strongly condemned the decision. In a post on social media, he said:<\/p>\n Such a move rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became.<\/p>\n A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a launch pad to annihilate Israel \u2014 not to live in peace beside it. Let\u2019s be clear: the Palestinians do not seek a state alongside Israel; they seek a state instead of Israel.<\/p>\n And, in an article for the Telegraph at the weekend, Tzipi Hotovely<\/strong>, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UK, reiterated the same argument. She said:<\/p>\n Palestinian recognition would be a reward for hostage-taking, for rape, for murder, for burning innocent people alive.<\/p>\n This morning, asked if he agreed with Netanyahu that recognising the state of Palestine would amount to rewarding Hamas for the 7 October attack, Jonathan Reynolds<\/strong>, the business secretary, replied\u201d<\/p>\n No, I think that is not the right way to characterise it.<\/p>\n We all recognise that both Israelis and Palestinians need a two-state solution, no matter how difficult that is. That requires a state to exist on both sides.<\/p>\n This conflict has clearly been going for a very long period of time. But the scale of the horrific things that we are seeing \u2013 we\u2019ve surely got to use this as a moment to really move forward on a two-state solution. And that is how we want to use recognition.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n This is what Jonathan Reynolds<\/strong>, the business secretary, told BBC Breakfast this morning about how he does not expect the Trump\/Starmer talks today to lead to a decision on some of the matters left unresolved in the US-UK trade deal announced earlier this year. He said:<\/p>\n We were very happy to announce the breakthrough that we had a few months ago in relation to sectors like automotive, aerospace, which are really important to the UK economy.<\/p>\n But we always said it was job saved, but it wasn\u2019t job done. There\u2019s more to do.<\/p>\n The negotiations have been going on on a daily basis since then. There\u2019s a few issues to push a little bit further today.<\/p>\n We won\u2019t perhaps have anything to announce a resolution of those talks, but there\u2019s some sectors that we still need to resolve, particularly around steel and aluminium, and there\u2019s the wider conversation about what the US calls its reciprocal tariffs.<\/p>\n Reynolds delivered a similar message on the Today programme. (See 9.30am.)<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n One of the world\u2019s most prominent hedge fund investors, Ray Dalio, has warned that the UK is stuck in a \u201cdoom loop\u201d as it faces a worrying mix of higher taxes, rising debts and slower growth. Kalyeena Makortoff<\/strong> has the story.<\/p>\n Share<\/span>Police officers guarding the beach near the Trump Turnberry golf course this morning where President Donald Trump is staying.<\/span> Photograph: Alastair Grant\/APShare<\/p>\n Good morning. Keir Starmer has a lead role in the Trump show today. He is flying to Scotland for a meeting with the US president, who is combining a golfing holiday with meetings with leaders like Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and John Swinney, Scotland\u2019s first minister.<\/p>\n The von der Leyen talks culminated in the announcement of what Trump described as a \u201cpowerful\u201d trade deal (albeit one that only means the Trump tariffs won\u2019t damage US-EU trade as much as they otherwise might have done; it is not an improvement on the status quo ante.)<\/p>\n Starmer is set to spend a lot of time with Trump today. He is arriving before lunch, and he is not flying back to London until this evening, after what No 10 describes as a \u201cprivate engagement\u201d (dinner?) at Trump\u2019s golf course in Aberdeenshire. There is a bilateral scheduled, but Trump does not like long meetings and Downing Street has not said much about what else the two men will be doing. Starmer has reportedly been working out how to respond if Trump invites him to play a round of golf. According to my colleague Eleni Courea, who is Scotland covering the trip, that is one humiliation that Trump won\u2019t be inflicting on the PM, who is a good footballer but a total novice at Trump\u2019s favourite sport. But Starmer will also be flying to Aberdeen with the president on Air Force One, we expect. In White House terms, that is a token of respect.<\/p>\n Normally when political leaders meet, they speak to the press afterwards, to brief on what they have agreed. Today Trump and Starmer will hold their main event with reporters before their talks and so we are not expecting them to announce anything of substance at this point. Instead, we may just end up with Trump giving us one of his stream-of-consciousness peformances. While he has been in Scotland, these have include rants about European immigration (\u201cyou got to stop this horrible invasion that\u2019s happening to Europe \u2013 immigration is killing Europe\u201d) and wind turbines (\u201cwhen they start to rust and rot in eight years you can\u2019t really turn them off, you can\u2019t burn them \u2013 the whole thing is a con job\u201d).<\/p>\n At one point it was expected that Trump and Starmer would use the meeting today to tie up loose ends in the US-UK trade deal, particularly relating to steel tariffs. But Jonathan Reynolds<\/strong>, the business secretary, has been giving interviews this morning and he told the Today programme he \u201cwouldn\u2019t expect announcements from this visit\u201d on trade.<\/p>\n Instead, the situation in Gaza may be the focus of the Trump\/Starmer talks and, as Pippa Crerar<\/strong> reports, Starmer will urge Trump to use his influence with Israel to get Benjamin Netanyahu to resume peace talks with Hamas.<\/p>\n This is a difficult subject for Starmer because the PM is coming under increasing pressure from members of his own cabinet to recognise the state of Palestine. Doing this would anger Trump, who takes the Israeli view that this would amount to rewarding Hamas for the 7 October attack. And it would not have any immediate practical impact on the situation in Gaza. But Labour MPs are increasingly coming round to the view that, as Wes Streeting<\/strong>, the health secretary put it, it is best to recognise the state of Palestine \u201cwhile there is a state of Palestine left to recognise\u201d. As Mark Malloch Brown<\/strong>, a former UN deputy secretary-general and a minister in Gordon Brown\u2019s government, told the Observer yesterday, recognition would also send a message to Israel that \u201cyou can\u2019t bomb your way out of the reality that you\u2019re going to have to negotiate with the Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n In interviews this morning Reynolds<\/strong> said that the UK was committed to recognising the state of Palestine; it was just a matter of timing, he said.<\/p>\n He told ITV\u2019s Good Morning Britain:<\/p>\n It is a case of when, not if.<\/p>\n It\u2019s about how we use this moment, because you can only do it once to have a meaningful breakthrough.<\/p>\n And on Sky News he went further, implying he expects recognition to happen during this parliament.<\/p>\n In this parliament, yes. I mean, if it delivers the breakthrough that we need.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t forget, we can only do this once. If we do it in a way which is tokenistic, doesn\u2019t produce the end to this conflict, where do we go to next?<\/p>\n Here is the agenda for the day.<\/p>\n Morning:<\/em> Rachel Reeves, chancellor, is on a visit in Bournemouth.<\/p>\n 11am:<\/em> Nigel Farage, Reform UK leader, holds a press conference with \u201ca special guest\u201d. According to the Daily Mail, he is Colin Sutton, a former detective chief inspector, who is joining the party as a crime adviser.<\/p>\n 11.30am:<\/em> Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.<\/p>\n Around noon:<\/em> Keir Starmer is due to arrive at President Trump\u2019s Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, Scotland, where the two leaders are due to speak to the media at around 12.30pm. They will hold a formal meeting in the afternoon before flying to Aberdeen, where Trump owns another golf course and where they are expected to have a private dinner.<\/p>\n Around lunchtime:<\/em> Kemi Badenoch is expected to record a media clip.<\/p>\n Afternoon:<\/em> The Stop Trump Coalition holds a protest outside Trump\u2019s Aberdeenshire golf course.<\/p>\n Late afternoon:<\/em> Angela Rayner, deputy PM, hosts a reception for the Lionesses following victory in the Women\u2019s Euro 2025.<\/p>\n Also, David Lammy, foreign secretary, is in New York for a meeting on a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n If you want to contact me, please post a message below the line when comments are open (normally between 10am and 3pm at the moment), or message me on social media. I can\u2019t read all the messages BTL, but if you put \u201cAndrew\u201d in a message aimed at me, I am more likely to see it because I search for posts containing that word.<\/p>\n If you want to flag something up urgently, it is best to use social media. You can reach me on Bluesky at @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social. The Guardian has given up posting from its official accounts on X, but individual Guardian journalists are there, I still have my account, and if you message me there at @AndrewSparrow, I will see it and respond if necessary.<\/p>\n I find it very helpful when readers point out mistakes, even minor typos. No error is too small to correct. And I find your questions very interesting too. I can\u2019t promise to reply to them all, but I will try to reply to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.50 EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starmer to meet Trump to discuss Gaza and trade, as minister suggests UK could recognise Palestinian state by next election Good morning. Keir Starmer has a lead role in the Trump show today. 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Swinney says SNP need majority in next year’s Holyrood elections to hold second independence referendum<\/h2>\n
John Swinney says he will use meeting with Trump to ask for Scotch whisky to be exempt from US tariffs<\/h2>\n
Former senior detective to join Reform UK as crime adviser<\/h2>\n
Reynolds rejects Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim recognition of Palestinian statehood would reward Hamas terrorism<\/h2>\n
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says he does not expect Trump\/Starmer talks to lead to trade announcement today<\/h2>\n
UK is stuck in a \u2018debt doom loop\u2019, says top investor<\/h2>\n
Starmer to meet Trump to discuss Gaza and trade, as minister suggests UK could recognise Palestinian state by next election<\/h2>\n