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Donald Trump says Keir Starmer doing 'very good job' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, now I'm worried.

[–] Z3k3 11 points 4 days ago

Saw something yesterday saying he wanted a regime change in the UK. This is him just confusing those of us who's opinion of stammer went up off the back of yhat statement