The PM gave the US President a letter from the King (Image: Getty)
Donald Trump has been invited for an unprecedented second state visit to the UK.
Sir presented the US President with a letter from the King as they met at the White House for crunch talks on and trade.
As the pair were sat next to each other in the Oval Office, Mr Trump said he would be visiting the UK in the “near future”.
The US President already made a grand state visit to Britain, hosted by the late Queen in 2019.
Precedent for second-term US presidents who have already made a state visit is usually tea or lunch with the monarch at Windsor Castle, as was the case for George W Bush and Barack Obama.
But Mr Trump has received an invitation to make a second state visit.
Greeting Sir Keir in the White House, Mr Trump said: “It’s a great honour to have Prime Minister Starmer at the Oval Office.
“It’s a very special place and he’s a special man – and the United Kingdom is a wonderful country that I know very well, I’m there a lot.
“I’ll be going there and we expect to see each other in the near future – we’ll be announcing it.
“We’re going to be discussing many things today, we’re going to be discussing /, we’ll be discussing trade and lots of other items, and I think we can say we are going to be getting along on every one of them.
“We’ve had a tremendous relationship and, frankly, the Prime Minister and I have met twice before, and we get along very famously, as you would say, and I look forward to it very much.
“We look forward to the day and the meeting, and we’ll be having a luncheon after this, and then another work session, and I believe we’re going to have a press conference at the end – so I look forward to it and, Mr Prime Minister, thank you very much.”