US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a “very good job thus far” and that the pair have a “very good relationship”.
Asked by the BBC on board Air Force One about his relationship with Sir Keir, Trump added that they would be having a call “over the next 24 hours”.
Trump and the Labour leader have met on a number of occasions, including a visit by Sir Keir to Trump Tower in New York during the presidential campaign.
Tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk, however, has been strongly critical of Sir Keir and has repeatedly called for his removal from office.
“I get along with him well. I like him a lot,” Trump said of Sir Keir.
"He’s liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he’s a very good person and I think he’s done a very good job thus far.
"He’s represented his country in terms of philosophy.
“I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him.”
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[Foreign Secretary] Lammy has described his own criticism of the president, made when he was a backbencher, as “old news”.
In 2018 he described Trump as a “tyrant” and “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” but the foreign secretary has since had dinner with him alongside the prime minister.
Probably thinks that Starmer will just overrule government objections to their poor meat standards…Missing the point that he doesn’t really have the ability to override things like that.
Even if he could overrule health and safety laws there’s absolutely no reason for him to do that. Increasing trade with the European Union just makes the likes of Reform look weaker while at the same time not giving the general public yet another reason to dislike him.
Allowing US meat byproducts into the supermarkets is a lose-lose situation.
When this first started getting discussed long ago, I made a decision that if the shitty US-standard meat ever got legalised in the UK without massive “this is chlorine-washed/etc.” stickers, I’d just give up on meat. Not worth the faff.