Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer must stand up to Donald Trump and show Europe is strong enough to be ‘challenge and threat’ to US and Russia, says Britain’s leading political biographer Sir Anthony Seldon.
Sir Keir’s promise for Britain to be a “bridge” between the US and the EU would not work if Europe continued its current “desperately weak” condition, argued Sir Anthony.
To do so, Sir Keir would have to make it clear to Mr Trump that Europe and the EU could be “remodelled” and made much stronger.
Sir Keir Starmer can make history at his meeting with Donald Trump this week – but only if he shows Churchillian strength and stands up for Britain and Europe.
Sir Anthony denounced the “stomach-churning triumphalism and glee” of right-wingers in Britain to Mr Trump's victory which has led them to claim that “Trump is right and Zelensky wrong”.
