Donald Trump has shared a few delicate thoughts on Ed Miliband’s net zero deal with California Governor Gavin Newsom. He told POLITICO today:
“The UK’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum… Gavin is a loser. Everything he’s touched turns to garbage. His state has gone to hell, and his environmental work is a disaster… It is inappropriate for [the UK] to be dealing with him.”
The deal is a memorandum of understanding between the UK and California in which both economies promise to collaborate on green energy technologies like offshore wind. It is also a chance for Newsom to start making powerful new friends ahead of his inevitable 2028 presidential bid, which Miliband was only too happy to oblige. The White House noticed…
Starmer was read out a list of his 13 U-turns on BBC Radio 2, to which he responded:
“Well, I am a common sense merchant.”