America has elected Donald Trump as its subsequent President, leaving the PM in a clumsy place as his entrance bench have beforehand trashed Mr Trump.
Sir Keir Starmer might be scrambling to ‘atone’ for his phrases and that of his MPs, as he should now work straight with Mr Trump throughout his time in Number 10.
Speaking on The Division Bell podcast, The Express’ Sam Lister mentioned: “The implications for Britain are really interesting. Keir Starmer was straight out the block after it became clear that Donald Trump was the new president to congratulate him.”
“But obviously there is this whole back catalogue of comments made by Keir Starmer, his Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, Health Secretary West Streeting and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, who have said very robust things about Donald Trump in the past. And they said that from the safety of opposition.”
It’s not simply the cupboard which have made unfavourable remarks about Trump, but in addition the PM himself.
In 2021, Sir Keir declared himself to be “anti-Trump but pro-American” and final yr criticised the Conservative social gathering by evaluating them to Mr Trump. He mentioned: “These aren’t Churchill’s Tories anymore. If anything, they behave more and more like Donald Trump.”
The foreign secretary David Lammy has called Mr Trump a “racist KKK and neo-Nazi sympathiser” and wrote in Time journal that he could be protesting towards the then authorities’s “capitulation to this tyrant in a toupee”.
He additionally mentioned: “Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath, he is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of Western progress for so long.”
These remarks might put a pressure on the US-UK particular relationship, and its unclear how Mr Trump will really feel about working with Sir Keir and his cupboard.
The PM will doubtless be on a ‘bended knee’ to get again in Mr Trumps good books.
Sam mentioned: “Now [Labour] are dealing with the reality of having to deal with a president that they as a party collectively on their frontbench, have really gone for relentlessly over the years. David Lammy called him a neo-Nazi sympathiser…This is a man who can hold a grudge.”
“I think in many ways Trump will perhaps like the fact that Labour are in power because he has and where he wants them really. They have to really be kind of on bended knee to him for the rest of the Parliament to atone for all their previous comments.”
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