McFadden on Sky News this morning, responding to Trump’s claim that NATO faces a “very bad future” if allies don’t deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz:
“Well, that’s the president right there. The quote that you’ve just given has summed him up. It’s a very transactional presidency, and our job is to navigate this, to always remember that the friendship between the United States and the United Kingdom runs very deep. It’s a good relationship, it’s enduring, and I think it will outlast all the personalities involved.”
Trump and Starmer spoke over the phone last night. The White House isn’t happy that the UK is sitting on its hands. Starmer is up at the lectern at 10:30am…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”