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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kiran Stacey Policy editor

Trump takes centre stage as questions linger over UK’s role in Gaza ceasefire

Donald Trump and Keir Starmer
Donald Trump briefly shook Keir Starmer’s hand before turning his back on him and continuing to explain how he had brought peace to the Middle East. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

For British officials who had spent the last 24 hours talking up the UK’s role in negotiating peace in Gaza, Monday’s press conference by Donald Trump in Egypt was a brutal lesson in realpolitik.

“Where’s the United Kingdom?” asked the US president before ushering up Keir Starmer, who had been stood behind him. Trump briefly shook the prime minister’s hand and called him “his friend”, before turning his back on him and continuing to explain how he had brought peace to the Middle East without allowing the prime minister to say a word.

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