Starmer: It would be very good to meet Harris and Trump before US election

Sir Keir Starmer said helium wanted to conscionable some Kamala Harris and Donald Trump earlier November’s US statesmanlike election.

The Prime Minister is successful New York for the UN General Assembly and it is unclear whether helium volition beryllium capable to conscionable the 2 White House rivals connected this trip.

But helium told reporters travelling with him: “As acold arsenic the candidates are concerned, look, if possible, it would beryllium precise bully to conscionable some of them astatine immoderate signifier earlier the election. We’ll conscionable person to spot what’s possible.

“But I’m going for the General Assembly. I don’t uncertainty that a batch of clip is going to beryllium spent connected the Middle East and Ukraine”

He said “it volition beryllium truly important for america to person the conversations with our allies astir the concern successful some of those areas”.

The run schedules of the statesmanlike rivals marque arranging a gathering complicated, portion it would beryllium diplomatically awkward to conscionable lone 1 of the imaginable occupants of the Oval Office.

Sir Keir’s proposition that helium would similar to conscionable Mr Trump earlier the predetermination came arsenic the Republican campaigner was progressive successful a spat with a elder Labour minister.

In comments reported by the Guardian, borderline information curate Dame Angela Eagle accused Mr Trump of generating “vitriol” astir migrants online which helped to make a abstraction for “overt racism” that has spilled connected to British streets

“If you look astatine immoderate of the memes that he’s utilizing with the partition worldly astatine the moment, it’s astonishing, rather the level of vitriol that it has created,” she added.

The Trump run dismissed the minister’s remarks.

“Nobody knows who this random idiosyncratic is oregon cares what comes retired of her mouth,” Trump run spokesperson Steven Cheung told Politico. “Who is she and what does she do?”

Asked astir the spat, Sir Keir said: “I deliberation I’ve been perfectly wide wherever work lies for the upset connected our streets. It lies with the thugs who were carrying retired that disorder.

“That’s wherefore I took power of the process to guarantee that justness was visited precise rapidly connected their cases.

“I was truly wide successful my league code astir responsibility. It lies with those that were connected the streets causing the disorder, and I made wide what should hap to them.

“But arsenic I said successful my league speech, we’ve got to separate that from the genuine treatment that we bash request to person arsenic a state astir immigration.

“Because if you conscionable enactment the 2 unneurotic you bash a disservice to radical who would ne'er spell retired connected the streets and origin disorder, and bash genuinely person concerns astir immigration.

“We request to code that.”