PM should listen to Trump and dump expensive net zero

IF Keir Starmer wants Britain firing on all cylinders he should take Donald Trump's advice: cut taxes and slash immigration, cut crime and stop wasting money on net zero. "Politics is pretty simple", the US President told the PM and America is booming as a result.

- Tim Newark

But don't hold your breath for any changes.

It is truly remarkable how complicated Starmer has made governing Britain. Energy should be about making money, not losing it in endless subsidies, Trump explained to the beleaguered Labour leader. If energy is cheaper, factories and businesses all make more money, generating more taxes for the exchequer which means taxes can be cut, encouraging more employment. It's a virtuous circle.

Starmer, however, appears blind to all this common sense.

His problem is that he appears to prefer virtue-signalling to making money. Trump is the exact opposite. He has just signed a trade deal with the EU that means it will import £560billion of American oil and liquid natural gas. Now that's a deal that will see money gushing into US government coffers, allowing Trump to cut taxes for hard-working people and ignite the economy.