Hard work should pay Unlock quality journalism that champions free enterprise Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | Keir Starmer and Donald Trump last met at Turnberry golf club in Scotland in July |  | Rob Crilly Chief US Correspondent | When Donald Trump lands at Stansted tonight he will be leaving behind his worries and deepening fears about political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.
He will arrive to find a host with his own problems.
Sir Keir Starmer has had two key departures from his administration in Angela Rayner and Lord Mandelson.
Now he faces calls to resign over his apparent misjudgment in appointing Lord Mandelson as ambassador to Washington despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the late paedophile financier.
The latest exit is his director of strategy, who resigned yesterday after making sexually explicit comments about Diane Abbott.
Trump is not a typical politician, but one thing he understands is loyalty and crises.
Two key figures who know his thinking as well as anyone tell me that he will do what he can to make his host’s life easier.
His top team has spent much time lambasting the UK for what they see as attacks on freedom of speech.
But don’t expect to hear much of it during the three-day state visit. The US president, ever the expert on hospitality (running clubs, hotels and resorts), intends to be the perfect guest and plans to stay away from anything too controversial during his stay in Britain.
He has been looking forward to inspecting the guard at Windsor Castle for months and wants nothing to get in the way. | A large ‘ring of steel’ security fence surrounds sections of Windsor’s Long Walk | That doesn’t mean Sir Keir is out of the woods.
The Speaker has granted permission for an emergency debate on the vetting and appointment of Lord Mandelson on Tuesday – which means that by the time Trump lands, headlines will be buzzing with questions about what the Prime Minister knew about Lord Mandelson’s emails with Epstein, and when.
And that is something that the US president, with his own past ties to Epstein, would really rather hear nothing more about.
You can bet neither leader wants to hear that name ever again.
But it promises to turn Thursday’s joint press conference at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country residence, into essential viewing.
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Are you up on your tartan etiquette? Thanks in part to Claudia Winkleman’s outfits on The Traitors, the Highland aesthetic is in. Now is the time to learn how to distinguish a MacQueen pattern from a MacTavish, and hone your pronunciation of “sgian-dubh”.
Hazel Kemp was interested to read our guide to navigating this style, having received the lowdown a little earlier: “In 1955 I lived in Newcastle upon Tyne and had just started at grammar school. My parents were Scottish and I was the only Scot in the school. I was told that ladies never wore the kilt, but were allowed to wear a tartan skirt. I was also expected to be able to dance all the Scottish reels. I am now 82, have lived in Scotland since 1958, and still don’t wear a kilt, but my husband does to weddings and funerals.”
Penny Russell-Grant, however, was not subject to these strictures: “My dear grandmother, a proud Scot and excellent needlewoman, kindly made me a kilt in the family tartan when I was nine years old. Unfortunately, her overzealous pleating across the back made the skirt so heavy that I nearly toppled over whenever I wore it.”
I must admit that I hadn’t previously given the finer details of Highland chic much thought, since, as far as I’m aware I have no Scottish ancestry. Mind you, I’ve noticed over several years of wedding-going that some men need only the slenderest excuse to don a sporran (rather like seventh-generation Texans who still regard themselves as primarily Irish).
So I was amused by this story from Hilary Aitken: “When I was a child, my family lived for a time in Somerset. While there, my father was invited to a Burns Night supper. Being a Lowland Scot from the Central Belt, he neither owned nor ever wore a kilt, so dressed in a suit. When he arrived he was a) the only Scotsman there and b) the only guest not wearing a kilt.”
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