US gives PM chance to shine

REMAINERS are choking on the sublime irony of it the fact that thanks to Brexit, The Donald has gone soft on the UK with his tariffs.

- Carole Malone

On Liberation Day this week (only Trump could call imposing swingeing taxes on the world a liberation) the President spoke scathingly about the EU's trade policies before slapping a 20% tariff on it. But because Brexit has restored sovereign control over trade policy here he wasn't as hard on us.

It's clear Trump hates Europe and had Starmer been able to drag us back into it the way he's been gagging to for months, we'd have been hit with the same tariffs. But still, those bitter Remainiacs are spitting their bile and screaming that Brexit is the big evil, when in fact it's exactly what's saved us from tariffs that would have 100% done for our economy.

The problem for Starmer now is that he's got to do what, in the past, he's proved genetically incapable of he's got to be politically smart. No knee-jerk retaliations, no joining hands with Europe singing Kumbaya and bemoaning the Mad Man Trump. Publicly he needs to zip it, while privately he should be negotiating a zero-tariff transatlantic trade deal with the President.