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What Donald Trump’s win means for Sir Keir Starmer and the UK | Politics Information

Editorial Board Published November 6, 2024
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In June 2019, Sir Keir Starmer wrote concerning the two individuals he preferred least in international politics: “An endorsement from Donald Trump tells you everything you need to know about what is wrong with Boris Johnson’s politics and why he isn’t fit to be prime minister.” 

The identical month, once more, he railed: “Humanity and dignity. Two words not understood by President Trump.”

Again then, Theresa Could was prime minister, Jeremy Corbyn was main Labour and Sir Keir was already in discussions about seizing the crown if his get together misplaced the election.

So on the time, Sir Keir’s tweets have been meant as a innocent gesture to spice up his attraction to Labour supporters who might unite round a standard political foe. For sure, they weren’t meant to have an enduring diplomatic legacy

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Sir Keir’s now international secretary was even much less diplomatic. Again in 2017, David Lammy – who was sitting out the Corbyn period and unconstrained by frontbench strictures – stated Trump was selling “a fascist, racist, extremist hate group”. Addressing the then president straight, he intoned: “You are not welcome in my country and my city.”

In contrast to Sir Keir, Lammy didn’t have a better objective in posting his messages. In his e-book, Tribes, Lammy admitted when penning this message he selected essentially the most provocative and blunt language attainable realizing it could mild up Twitter. It labored, and within the e-book, he notes the message obtained 58,000 reposts.

These two males should now hope these outbursts are lengthy forgotten they usually can work with one of the vital capricious, unpredictable and useless politicians on the planet, who in the previous few hours made a sensational return to the White Home after 4 years within the wilderness.

Repairing this breach has been one in all Lammy’s major duties ever since he was appointed shadow international secretary in November 2021.

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Having spent his childhood summers in New York earlier than attending Harvard Regulation College, Lammy isn’t any stranger to US politics. He went not less than 5 instances in Opposition, prioritising relations with Republicans. All of the whereas he watched the probabilities enhance of a Trump return to the White Home.

His Rolodex of Republicans now consists of Robert O’Brien, the fourth and remaining Nationwide Safety Adviser within the first Trump presidency, Mike Pompeo, the ex-secretary of state, and Elbridge Colby, who might head to the defence division or safety job on Trump’s return to energy.

Such was Lammy’s success charming Colby, a China hawk who one would assume would have a pure affinity with the Tories, that he not too long ago gave a exceptional interview to the Telegraph which suggests some real progress has been made.

“Right now you probably have not seen conservatives in America and conservatives in England so far from each other,” Colby informed the paper. He went on to heap reward on Labour’s method to international affairs extra extensively.

“I’ve been struck that Lammy has made a real effort to reach out to conservatives and new-Right people in the United States,” Colby says. “I like what I’m hearing from Lammy and [Defence Secretary John] Healey,” he says.

“Certainly in their defence approach I hear a lot more realistic reckoning of ends, ways and means which is a very positive development from the Cameron approach which was wildly incoherent and ended up putting the burden on the Americans – the Libya [bombing campaign in 2011] being the ultimate example.”

As for Lammy’s previous feedback, they’re excused. “A lot of people have said things in the past that they’ve moved on from,” Colby added.

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Lammy additionally believes he has one other, even greater diplomatic prize that may very well be used to clean relations – Trump’s decide for vp, JD Vance.

Lammy first met Vance lengthy earlier than Trump’s choice as his quantity two – mockingly they have been each Trump critics as soon as – bonding over their respective books, rising up in powerful locations and being legal professionals earlier than they have been politicians.

The problem shall be leveraging that hyperlink into one thing extra significant when essentially the most unpredictable of characters walks again into the White Home in January.

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However the final two months have proven simply how unpredictable relations are more likely to be.

The excessive was a two-hour dinner in Trump Tower in September with Trump, Starmer and Lammy (“We saw that – especially the location – as a gesture of friendship,” stated a UK official).

The low level was the publicity round Labour’s campaigning effort for the Democrats, involving dozens of get together figures making an attempt to forestall Trump’s victory, an effort weaponised by the candidate himself with the Republican Social gathering bringing authorized proceedings. It isn’t fully clear which reminiscence Trump will carry into the White Home.

Nonetheless, international points – and the affect of US home coverage – might but bitter international relations.

A lot of thought has gone into how the UK and EU international locations will take care of the attainable threats to NATO and Trump’s stance on Ukraine.

On Thursday, European leaders shall be gathering for a gathering of the European Political Group to take inventory of the modified international image.

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In Whitehall, they’re clinging to the concept Trump’s love of dealmaking would possibly imply he brings stress to bear on Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine reasonably than merely strolling away.

However Europe, together with the UK, has begun the dialog about what occurs subsequent with or with out the US.

The place the UK feels much less ready is within the impending commerce conflict, with the Trump menace of a ten% tariff on items being imported to the US. Communicate to elements of presidency they usually appear virtually nonchalant – emphasising that the overwhelming majority of our buying and selling relations with the US is in companies which might escape such a tax.

However that is seen as complacency by producers – who level out we export £70bn price of automobiles, prescription drugs and Scotch whisky to the US – which is price double our subsequent greatest export market of Germany.

They’ve been pleading with ministers within the enterprise division to take the menace critically. Jonathan Reynolds, the enterprise secretary, not too long ago authorised modelling to take a look at the affect of any such tariffs.

Some Labour MPs assume a Trump win will imply a cloth hit to GDP progress – a rebuke to these in authorities who’ve been taking the prospect of US protectionism too flippantly.

Financial and international turbulence isn’t with out value, however the Starmer authorities is hoping it has finished what’s virtually attainable to supply a modicum of insulation.

They are going to quickly discover out if it really works.

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