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What the UK wants from Trump’s visit By David Crowe When British prime ministers need help, they can call on a power few others can match: the monarchy.
Only the King can bring the full honours needed to impress Trump with the glory of the monarchy and convince him that British interests are aligned with his.
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Keir Starmer is leaving nothing to chance. The prime minister has just had a political fortnight from hell and badly needs a successful Trump visit to spin his way out of a spiral of bad news.
One year after he was elected, Starmer presides over a weak economy that offers no growth despite his promise to revive the country after 14 years of Conservative Party rule. He is struggling to stop asylum seeker arrivals and is the target of regular protests against migration.
The domestic imperative is to break the doom cycle by striking grand deals with Trump to assure voters that the Labour government has an economic vision.
One deal will bring massive US money into the UK tech sector to power artificial intelligence services. A second deal will offer US investment for nuclear energy to power these data centres and other parts of the electricity grid. There is also talk of an agreement to reduce US tariffs on Scotch whisky.
All up, the US and UK are set to announce deals worth more than $US10 billion ($15 billion) this week, US officials told Reuters.
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Prince William to greet Trump at Windsor By Angus Delaney Trump and his wife, Melania, will first be greeted by the King’s “very handsome” son Prince William – as the president has called him – and William’s wife, Kate.
Trump’s remark was made at the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris last December.
“I had a great talk with the prince,” Trump told the New York Post. “He’s a good-looking guy. He looked really very handsome last night. Some people look better in person. He looked great. He looked really nice, and I told him that.”
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