Battered Starmer Sees No End to Pain Amid War, Inflation, Mutiny

Donald Trump says Keir Starmer is “no Winston Churchill.” There’s at least one way the UK premier resembles Britain’s wartime leader: at a time of global crisis, political rivals are poised to challenge.

Starmer has plenty to worry about, including a televised breakdown in US relations that’s seen him become the president’s whipping boy, rising borrowing costs and the threat of inflation triggered by the Iran war, and hawkish Bank of England guidance causing traders to price in three interest rate hikes this year, after previously expecting cuts.