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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Trump agrees to ‘friendly meeting’ with Keir Starmer after making surprise call

Starmer and Burnett at a dining table, Starmer on the phone.
Keir Starmer takes a call sitting opposite Burnett. Photograph: U.S. Embassy London

Donald Trump has spoken to Keir Starmer again after what appears to have been a spur-of-the-moment phone call from the US president that was not expected by the British prime minister and his team.

News of the call, which took place on Thursday evening, emerged in a Downing Street statement about Starmer’s meeting with Mark Burnett, the British TV producer whom Trump has appointed as special envoy to the UK.

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