The international, rules-and-rights-based order is crumbling in the face of Trump’s brute force. This leaves career human rights lawyer Keir Starmer in an interesting position…

A Venezuelan friend once showed me a small purse made out of folded and woven 100,000 Bolivar notes. These would be sold to tourists for a few dollars as their currency was literally worth less than the paper it was printed on. This is what socialism does. Always and everywhere it humiliates and impoverishes its people. So no City AM reader should be sad to see one fewer Marxist dictator in the world.

What should concern us, though, is what replaces Maduro. Donald Trump has no interest in freedom and democracy for Venezuela. He is only interested in strength. We are seeing the post-war, international, rules-based order crumbling before our eyes and being replaced by what looks much more like a 19th-century model of great power competition.

This leaves Keir Starmer – a former human rights barrister and career scion of the old order – in an........

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