Top Tories have urged Keir Starmer to axe Donald Trump’s second state visit – insisting that the King should not have to make up for the PM’s “diplomatic failings”.
One shadow minister has demanded that any such trip should be cancelled until “the steadfastness of the US’s commitment to her allies is assured”.
When Starmer held his bilateral meeting with Donald Trump in Washington DC last week, the PM offered the President a letter from His Majesty, inviting him for a second state visit – just one day before his clash with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.
However, since Potus’s bust-up with the Ukrainian President in the White House, shadow home affairs minister Alicia Kearns has come out and urged the PM to cancel the upcoming state visit: “State visits should be conferred to the most honourable of allies, not to curry favour.
Kearns dubbed the White House bust-up a “degrading spectacle” and “performative bullying for a US audience” by the Republican
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“No state visit should proceed until the steadfastness of the US’s commitment to her allies is assured. His Majesty should not have to carry the weight of Keir’s diplomatic failings.”
She further dubbed the White House bust-up a “degrading spectacle” and “performative bullying for a US audience” by the Republican, while also stressing that Zelensky is “fighting for the survival of his people – an innocent people being murdered by a barbaric imperialist and dictator”.
A White House source has revealed that redacting such an invitation would be “very unwise unless the UK wants to do undo all the goodwill generated by the Prime Minister’s trip”, the Daily Mail reports.
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