Trump Helps Macron Find a Friend in Starmer
It’s lonely in Europe’s political center.
Keir Starmer at the British Chambers of Commerce Global Annual Conference in May in London.
Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/BloombergIt must have been a pin-drop moment when Keir Starmer’s pledge for a “major rewrite” of the UK’s Brexit deal with the European Union landed on the Elysee breakfast table, just days before the Labour Party leader’s meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Here was the UK’s likely next prime minister potentially doing what his blustering foes in the Conservative Party have been doing for years since the fractious break from the EU: whipping up public opinion by demanding a better “deal” from Brussels, pocketing concessions from weary technocrats and then starting the cycle again by blaming the EU for not giving more.