Keir Starmer to raise Gaza starvation with Donald Trump during Turnberry summit
Keir Starmer will raise the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and try to seal a US trade deal during a high-stakes summit with Donald Trump on Monday.
The Prime Minister will also demand tough action against Vladimir Putin when he meets the US President at Turnberry.
The Republican arrived at Prestwick airport on Friday to kickstart a five day trip that will combine golf and political meetings.
He played his Turnberry course over the weekend and will travel to his other golf club at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire on Monday as well.
One of his final acts at Turnberry will be talks with Starmer on a range of international and domestic issues.
Condemnation of the Israeli Government' s actions in Palestine are growing as people in Gaza starve.
Starmer, who said he is 'horrified' by the crisis, wants Trump to revive ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas when they meet.
He also hopes to get a trade deal between the US and UK, which is currently in draft form, over the line.
The President and the Prime Minister will travel together for a private engagement in Aberdeen after their Turnberry meeting.
Trump will open his third golf course on Tuesda y during his stay in Aberdeenshire, where he is also expected to meet First Minister John Swinney.
Trump was seen teeing off at his Turnberry golf course over the weekend. A woman shouted 'We love you Trump' as the US president played golf.
Wearing a white baseball camp branded USA, Trump waved to journalists as he arrived on the green at Trump Turnberry in Girvan, Ayrshire, driving a white golf buggy.
A female well-wisher could be heard repeatedly shouting 'we love you Trump' and 'thank you'. Someone else shouted: 'Trump Trump Trump Trump '.
The sound of cheering could be heard as Trump took a shot. Protesters carrying placards stood in the dunes at Trump Turnberry, urging the president: 'Don't trust Starmer '.
Three people carried placards reading: 'President Trump don't trust Starmer'. The hand-painted sign also branded the Prime Minister an explicit term.
A woman holding it wore a red baseball cap with fake hair which read Make America Great Again, and appeared to laugh as she watched Mr Trump.
Another female supporter dressed in a floral anorak, held a US flag and wore a baseball cap reading Make England Great Again.
She carried a smaller sign which also branded Sir Keir an explicit term. They were joined by a man dressed in black, who wore an Adidas baseball cap.
A Trump supporter who travelled from Liverpool to Ayrshire in the hope of seeing the US President at his Turnberry golf course said he is 'chuffed' to have interacted with the President.
Tom English, 37, who made the four-and-a-half hour journey with some other Trump supporters, explained: 'We rushed up here hoping to get a glimpse of him. And that's happened this morning when we've got to interact with him a little bit.
'We couldn't really hear him because he was trying to shout to us in this wind, in the Scottish wind on the coast. So it was kind of hard to hear what he said.
'But he blew a kiss to the girls. Gave us a little wave. Trump junior gave us a little wave. And that's what it was about.
'We just wanted to see him in the flesh, and to get that interaction was an added bonus.'
When asked what he and the other supporters had said to the president, English recounted: 'Just that we love him, basically. The UK loves Trump. Don't believe the mainstream media.'
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