The new US ambassador meets Starmer after Trump urges the UK to drill for more oil

U.S. Ambassador Warren Stephens has met Prime Minister Keir Starmer aft President Donald Trump urged the U.K. to ditch upwind powerfulness projects and drill for oil

LONDON -- LONDON (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Warren Stephens met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer connected Friday to “convey the priorities of the Trump administration,” aft President Donald Trump urged the U.K. to ditch wind powerfulness projects and drill for oil.

The U.S. Embassy said those priorities see “maximizing the U.S.-U.K. concern to beforehand our shared interests, specified arsenic the precocious announced commercialized woody and our defence and information confederation which promotes stableness and prosperity worldwide.”

The embassy said the gathering astatine 10 Downing St. was the 2nd for the 2 men since Stephens, a billionaire concern banker and Republican donor, took up his station connected May 12.

Stephens arrived successful London conscionable aft the 2 governments struck a commercialized deal that saw the Trump medication assistance tariffs connected U.K. autos, alloy and aluminum successful instrumentality for greater entree to Britain for American products including beef and ethanol.

Trump wrote connected the Truth Social level Friday that the statement “is moving retired precise good for all.”

But helium advised Britain “that successful bid to get their Energy Costs down, they halt with the costly and unsightly windmills, and incentivize modernized drilling successful the North Sea, wherever ample amounts of lipid laic waiting to beryllium taken.”

He said the North Sea had “a period of drilling left, with Aberdeen arsenic the hub,” and claimed “U.K.’s Energy Costs would spell WAY DOWN, and fast!” with much lipid extraction.

One of the president's 2 Scottish play courses, Trump International Golf Links, is adjacent Aberdeen.

Britain is investing heavy successful upwind farms arsenic it seeks to make each of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2030 and interruption escaped from what Starmer has called “the rollercoaster of planetary fossil substance markets.”

The Trump medication is doing the other — prioritizing fossil fuels, including boosting coal, canceling financing for cleanable energy and climate-friendly projects, and targeting the upwind industry.

In opposition to his words astir Britain, Trump threatened Friday to enforce a 50% taxation connected each imports from the EU, saying commercialized talks with the 27-nation bloc “are going nowhere.”

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