American guest showed up counterpart Starmer

RESIDENT Trump’s state visit climaxed with a humiliation for Sir Keir Starmer, as the paucity of his leadership was brutally exposed.

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The president did not want to embarrass his host, but millions of Britons will have nodded in agreement when he said he hoped the UK would make the most of our riches in the North Sea.

When our economy is choked by sky-high energy prices, any resistance to extracting our own oil reserves is baffling and maddening. And Mr Trump also boasted of radical action to halt illegal immigration, while standing beside a PM who has abjectly failed to stop the boats.