Keir Starmer, improbable leader in the free world – politico

The music of the mood also changed in Paris, where a new admiration for Starmer appeared after weeks of doubt as to whether the working manager, whose party was considered too close to the former administration of Joe Biden in the United States, would be able to restart the special relationship.

“(Starmer) does a great job,” said a French official. “It was flawless with (Trump in the oval office), a very complicated man with polar values ​​opposed to his, and whose main allies (Elon Musk) exercised pressure and rose an odious campaign against him.”

“And he managed to stay faithful to himself” in his relationships with Trump, added the same official.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the former Conservative Secretary of Foreign Affairs, James, said intelligently about Starmer on Monday: “Although I often take great pleasure in criticizing the government, I think that this weekend, he has not really turned his foot.”

Several fundamental principles underlying the position of Starmer count in his favor: he is near a possible five-year term with a large house of the majority of the municipalities behind him, unlike the most delicate political realities faced by Friedrich Merz of Macron and German. Without a surprise change in these dynamics, he should be in office for the duration of Trump’s second term.

In addition, Great Britain, with France, is one of the largest military powers in Europe, which can count for something in the new era of Realpolitik.