18 Sep 2025

UK: Trump's state visit, polling crisis for Labour, migration

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 18 September 2025
Britain's King Charles III (L) and US President Donald Trump (R) talk as they inspect a guard of honour during a ceremonial welcome in the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on 17 September, 2025, during the US president's second State Visit.

Britain's King Charles III (L) and US President Donald Trump (R) talk as they inspect a guard of honour during a ceremonial welcome in the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on 17 September, 2025, during the US president's second State Visit. Photo: AFP / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

UK correspondent Hugo Gye details how Donald Trump's state visit has gone so far, ahead of a state banquet with the King and tomorrow's meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

It's just a year since Starmer's big election victory, but there's already questions over how long he can last given current polling.

And this week was supposed to see the first asylum seekers who entered the UK from France deported to the continent, but a court has blocked the move.

Hugo Gye is Political Editor of The i Paper