Nish Kumar
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And they're getting results in terms of pushback, but also they are, you know, seeing domestic bumps at home in politics
polling data.
I think that the line Starmer is trying to draw is possibly politically inadvisable, but also it's perilously naive to think that you can reason with Donald Trump.
And people keep refusing to take the things that he's saying at face value.
You know, we kept being told he's not going to invade Venezuela.
Look at where we are now.
He has been talking about Greenland for almost the entirety of the last 12, 13 months.
When he says things like, we will have to take it or we will have to do it however we have to do it, we should probably start taking him at face value.
And the next phase of conversation has to be what happens if US troops land in Greenland.
Emmanuel Macron has called the tariffs unacceptable.
He's actually at Davos and we should shout out his incredible choice of sunglasses.
He has gone full aviators.
Full Top Gun.
Legally, we can make no pronouncements about what Emmanuel Macron may have been doing the night before he had to give the speech.
But aviators are quite a good way of covering up your eyes if you've hit the claret a bit too hard.
Listen, the row has got very strange in the last few days.
Trump called the British decision to return the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius an act of, and this was in a Truth Social post, so it was in all caps, great stupidity.
And, you know, let's face it, he is the expert in great stupidity.
But it was less than a year ago that he, as US president, backed the deal during Starmer's trip to Washington.
So he's decided to have a complete U-turn on this.