BEIJING Prime Minister Keir Starmer Wednesday began a three-day visit to China where he will defend Britain’s “pragmatic” partnership with the Asian giant after years of fraught relations. It will be the first visit by a U.K. prime minister since Conservative Theresa May in 2018. Starmer will also make a brief stop in Japan to meet…
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer refused to say Wednesday whether he would urge President Trump to drop his threat to sue the BBC for a billion dollars over the broadcaster’s edit of a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election. During his weekly questioning in the House of Commons, Starmer was asked by…
ANKARA Türkiye and the United Kingdom signed a cooperation deal on the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to Ankara on Monday, marking a new step in defense ties between the two NATO allies. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hailed the agreement as “a new symbol of our strategic partnership” and…
Labour would have made fewer mistakes if it had listened to its MPs, the health secretary has said. Wes Streeting told a fringe event at the Labour Party conference: “We would have avoided some of the mistakes of the past year if we’d listened to our MPs. “We’ve got to have the humility to listen.”…
For Keir Starmer, securing record levels of US investment into Britain has validated his offer of an unprecedented second state visit to Donald Trump, a high-risk gamble that was designed to keep the unpredictable president on side. Trump celebrated his historic visit to Britain by announcing £150bn ($203bn) of corporate investment in the UK’s technology,…
WASHINGTON — At a banquet table fit for a king, but set specially for him, President Trump called his state visit to the United Kingdom this week “one of the highest honors of my life.” He then proceeded to tell guests at the white tie event that the United States was “a very sick country” last year…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said it was important to make a migrant returns deal with France work, in order to control the number of those arriving, as U.S. President Donald Trump urged him to use military force if necessary. “You have people coming in, and I told the Prime Minister I would stop it,”…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he and Donald Trump “absolutely agree” on the need for an Israeli-Palestine peace roadmap, but the U.S. president said he disagreed with countries recognising Palestine as a state. “We absolutely agree on the need for peace and a road map, because the situation in Gaza is intolerable,” Starmer told…
Our readers have been sharing their views on Trump’s visit to Britain and the royal welcome he received in the comments on Times articles. We have a wonderful King, who did great service to his country by courting Trump last night. Thank you Sir. Mike Hannah It’s not the King’s job to have opinions, but…
LONDON — President Trump arrived in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a state visit during which the British government hopes a multibillion-dollar technology deal will show the trans-Atlantic bond remains strong despite differences over Ukraine, the Middle East and the future of the Western alliance. State visits in Britain blend 21st century diplomacy with royal pageantry….