Starmer’s ‘Love Actually’ Moment With Trump May Never Come (1)

What was billed as an “emergency” Monday morning press conference offered Keir Starmer a now-or-never chance to hit back at Donald Trump over his latest assault on the transatlantic alliance.

Some — especially on the left of British politics — hanker for a moment reminiscent of when the prime minister played by Hugh Grant in Love Actually says he fears the UK-US relationship has become a bad one based on the US president taking “exactly what he wants.” Instead, the UK prime minister explained to a weary public why he will never stop exhausting diplomatic avenues with the US president, ...