Trump on Starmer: ‘I actually think he’s very nice’

After months of diary-juggling, Keir Starmer finally got his meeting with the man who could be the next US President. The political equivalent of the Rumble in the Jungle happened last night when Starmer sat down for a two-hour dinner with Donald Trump, following the Prime Minister’s speech at the UN General Assembly. Details of what Trump and Starmer talked about are scant: the official read-out merely says they discussed the ‘longstanding friendship’ between Britain and America. But we do know that among attendees at the Trump tower dinner was David Lammy, who once called his host ‘a woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath.’ How times change eh?

Prior to the meeting, Trump did offer some thoughts on the Prime Minister when he held a press conference and Christopher Hope of GB News asked him what he made of Starmer. ‘I’m going to see him in about an hour so I have to be nice right?’ began Trump ‘But I actually think he’s very nice.’