Keir Starmer may have survived his meeting with Donald Trump yesterday – with the President saying he was ‘inclined’ to support the Chagos deal and might not impose tariffs on the UK – but it appears the US President still has plenty of concerns about the state of this country.
Speaking to The Spectator’s Ben Domenech yesterday, the President was asked what he thought about our new Prime Minister. While Trump conceded that ‘He’s different. Different type’ to Boris Johnson (which may well go down as understatement of the year) he was generally positive about Sir Keir, saying ‘I have to say, he was very nice. We had a very good meeting.’
But policy differences remain. In the interview, Ben raised the recent decision by Apple to remove its Advanced Data Protection feature from its iCloud service, after the Home Office requested ‘backdoor access’ to encrypted data on the platform. Apple pointed out that this wasn’t possible – and so it was forced to remove the feature entirely, leaving British phone users at greater risk of being hacked and more vulnerable to government surveillance.
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