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Benjamin Quail, Lecturer in US Cultural and Social History, Queen's University Belfast

What Keir Starmer can learn from ‘little creep’ Harold Wilson in dealing with an angry US president

Starmer speaks to French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Fredrich Merz about the situation in the Middle East. Number 10/Flickr, CC BY

The Anglo-American “special relationship” has hit a low ebb following American strikes on Iran. US president Donald Trump disparaged British prime minister Keir Starmer with a negative comparison to Winston Churchill, making clear his “disappointment” over British reticence to offer logistical support to the American military.

This is the latest in a series of comments Trump has made about Starmer’s authority on foreign policy concerns – particularly the British return of Diego Garcia to Mauritius.

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