Tony Blair Urges The UK To Remain Close To Trump's America – Even If Brits Don't Like It |
Tony Blair Urges The UK To Remain Close To Trump's America – Even If Brits Don't Like It
"Staying with it means even when it is difficult or unpopular," the ex-Labour prime minister said.
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Tony Blair has called on the UK to maintain its close ties with Donald Trump’s America even when it’s “difficult or unpopular”.
The former Labour prime minister has penned a brutal essay calling for a policy reset within the party.
While laying into Keir Starmer’s government and taking apart the PM’s rivals, Blair also urged Britain to retain its special relationship with America.
Deep fractures between the White House and Downing Street have emerged in recent months after Starmer refused Trump’s requests for aide in the Iran war and turned down US pleas to send warships to the Middle East.
The US president has subsequently compared Starmer to Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister who proposed Nazi appeasement before World War 2.
Blair, who went to war in Iraq out of support for........