British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came determined to press the U.S. to take a larger role in helping quell what he called a “desperate situation” amid increasing reports of starvation in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war rages.

President Donald Trump once suggested his golf course in Scotland “furthers" the U.S.-U.K. relationship. Now he's getting the chance to prove it. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is meeting Monday with Trump at a golf property owned by the president's family near Turnberry in southwestern Scotland — then later traveling to Abderdeen,

The US president also told the UK leader on Monday that he would not take a position on France’s recognition of a Palestinian state.