{"id":642087,"date":"2026-06-16T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642087\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:28:16","slug":"starmer-denies-being-snubbed-by-trump-at-g7-summit-keir-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642087\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer denies being snubbed by Trump at G7 summit | Keir Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keir Starmer has denied being snubbed by Donald Trump<\/a> at the G7 in France after the two did not have a bilateral meeting at the summit.<\/p>\n

The prime minister, who did meet the US president in a series of discussions involving other leaders, said he had a series of \u201cvery productive, very good conversations\u201d with Trump. He added that Britain was ready to play its \u201cfull part\u201d in opening the strait of Hormuz after a peace deal<\/a> between Iran and the US.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said it was vital for British interests that the strait was opened \u201cas quickly as possible\u201d after the breakthrough. \u201cThe strait being closed in the way that it has had an impact on our economy, had an impact on every household across the country, so we\u2019ll play our full part in relation to that,\u201d he said, later adding that the UK could be involved in demining the vital shipping route.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, Starmer was caught on a hot mic asking: \u201cAre they having a meeting?\u201d while Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> were absent.<\/p>\n

\"KeirKeir Starmer caught on hotmic at G7 – video<\/p>\n

Starmer also appeared to indicate that there would be no new money for defence in the further delayed defence investment plan after the resignation of John Healey, who quit as defence secretary<\/a> over the funding being made available last week. Starmer said Labour had overseen the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the 1980s, increasing funding from 2.3% to 2.6% of GDP.<\/p>\n

He said the new defence secretary, Dan Jarvis, was looking at where he wanted the money to be spent. \u201cHe will now want to look at his own priorities and capabilities, and he may want to take a slightly different approach as to what those capabilities and priorities are now he\u2019s looking at the plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Starmer said he had spoken to Macron on Monday about next steps in deciding any role played by European allies in opening the strait, adding: \u201cWe do want to make sure that where we\u2019ve got capability and demining is an obvious example where we\u2019re coordinating that we agree a way forward with the United States and others to get the strait of Hormuz open as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said on Monday he did not believe the US would \u201cneed much help\u201d in ensuring the free passage of shipping in the strait, but it was not \u201ca bad idea to have a ship or two\u201d from other countries based in the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n

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Speaking at the summit on the first day of full meetings at the H\u00f4tel Royal in \u00c9vian, Starmer said his conversations with Trump had been focused on Iran and Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said the two men had not discussed the potentially problematic issues of defence spending and a ban on social media for under-16s in the UK, but a \u201cvery honest and frank conversation\u201d during dinner had focused on Iran. \u201cSo, contrary to what you may put to me, [it was] actually a very constructive, very good discussion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Starmer, who announced new sanctions<\/a> on Russia<\/a> to target finance networks and expand the number of vessels targeted as part of Moscow\u2019s shadow fleet carrying oil or liquified natural gas (LNG) to more than 600, said there was a \u201cmood change\u201d in the debate about Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201c[There is a] real unity in the G7<\/a> on Ukraine, a real sense that things are changing, that Ukraine is now taking territory, which it has done in the last few months, rather than defending territory, that the impact of sanctions is quite great on Russia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve obviously put new sanctions in today, and there was a shared understanding around the table [ \u2026] that the mood in Moscow is changing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starmer, who may be attending his last international meeting before a potential leadership battle after the Makerfield byelection on Thursday, said he would not \u201cwalk away\u201d and would contest any challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got a landslide victory in 2024 for a five-year mandate for this Labour government,\u201d he said. \u201cThey said it\u2019s not possible to turn the Labour party around. It\u2019s not possible to win an election. It\u2019s not possible if you do win an election to invest in your public services and stabilise the economy \u2013 wrong every time, and that\u2019s why I intend not to walk away from this, but to carry on with what I was elected to do, which is to serve this country, bring back the change that people desperately need in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer has denied being snubbed by Donald Trump at the G7 in France after the two did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-642087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642087","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=642087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}