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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

‘We can’t just be supine’: Ed Davey urges Starmer to stand up to ‘bully’ Trump

Donald Trump and Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer has disagreed with the US administration on occasions but the main approach has been to minimise any differences. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelagenicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images

Keir Starmer’s approach to Donald Trump is like that of a child in a playground hoping “the bully doesn’t notice them” and he should be more brave in standing up to the US president, Ed Davey has said.

In a direct challenge to the prime minister, the Liberal Democrat leader said that while the UK must engage with Trump it was “the patriotic thing to do” to call him out rather than try to indulge or placate him.

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