UK PM Keir Starmer to meet Donald Trump in New York – POLITICO

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday night at Trump Tower in New York.

It will be the first time the pair have met and indicates the new British government’s eagerness to win over the possible next occupant of the Oval Office.

Downing Street aides confirmed the meeting will happen at around 7.15 p.m. Thursday local time — 12.15 a.m. Friday morning in London — while Starmer is in the U.S. for the U.N. General Assembly’s annual meeting of world leaders.