Starmer was urged by Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey, a long-standing critic of the U.S. president, to\u00a0quiz Trump about Epstein when he meets him this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump \u201cprobably is rather embarrassed about his relationship with Epstein,\u201d observed Edward Leigh, a long-serving senior Conservative MP, adding\u00a0the U.S. president\u00a0\u201cmust be absolutely furious.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Leigh added that Trump must think \u201cwe in this country are complete plonkers, frankly, for the way that we have handled all this,\u201d noting that the experienced career diplomat Karen Pierce had been swept aside for Mandelson, who was controversially given the job as a political appointment. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Be prepared\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the headlines are inconvenient, Trump\u2019s exposure to potential political curveballs had already been limited by those who organized his trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Downing Street official said the visit had been \u201cmonths in the planning\u201d and that there would be no change in approach following Mandelson\u2019s sacking.<\/p>\n
Trump is being hosted by King Charles III at Windsor Castle\u00a025 miles from London as MPs leave Westminster for a parliamentary recess.\u00a0Trump will not address\u00a0the parliament, avoiding the potential embarrassment of British lawmakers calling for a boycott.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer was urged by Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey, a long-standing critic of the U.S. president, to\u00a0quiz Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[230,141,629,65727,65728,59,57,58,12174,984,50,423,424,156,426,56,157,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-141570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-ed-davey","tag-edward-leigh","tag-emily-thornberry","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-kemi-badenoch","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}