As President Trump takes office later today, Keir Starmer has assembled his top team, tasking them with landing a trade deal with the United States. It’s a nice idea, sure, but he is not going to get a deal – and he will simply embarrass himself by very publicly failing.
The Prime Minister has put together a ‘mini-Cabinet’, made up of the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the Foreign Secretary David Lammy, the Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and Jonathan Powell, with help from the UK’s incoming ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson. It would be hard to describe any committee that includes David Lammy as the ‘A-Team’, but still, Starmer is at least putting his most senior people on the case.
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