How welcome is Trump in Britain?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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POTUS has landed in the UK - where he's been so effectively directing public conversation and with increasing noise on the Right about the need for Britain's own MAGA movement. What do the British public really think about Trump? Do they welcome or resent this "unprecedented" state visit? And will it make Keir Starmer’s own position stronger or weaker? We speak to More in Common's Luke Tryl.
Later, why are British MPs getting barred from Israel? And what do they want the PM to say to Donald Trump on Gaza? We speak to Dr Simon Opher, one Labour MP recently turned away at Israel's border.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:18.9 | So that's one welcome for President Trump at Windsor Castle, and this is another. |
| 0:24.6 | Say it loud, say it clear, Donald Trump's not welcome here. Say it loud, say it. |
| 0:30.1 | Kirstama and number 10 will be holding their breath, hoping that this week with President Trump in town, |
| 0:36.0 | passes without too much incident. |
| 0:38.3 | But what do we in Britain really think of President Trump now? |
| 0:43.4 | And how does it all feed in to Keir Starmes' worsening and deepening political problems? |
| 0:49.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:55.1 | The Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 0:56.6 | It's Emily. |
| 0:57.2 | It's Lewis. |
| 0:57.9 | And last night, Donald Trump touched down at Stansted, lucky boy, made his way by helicopter to Winfield House, to the US Embassy here. |
| 1:07.9 | And he will have missed the projection by the activist group led by donkeys of a huge |
| 1:15.5 | picture of himself with Jeffrey Epstein that was emblazoned on the side of St George's Chapel |
| 1:23.7 | in Windsor. One of many pictures, one of many moments that groups like that are using |
| 1:31.4 | to try and draw attention to the man whom we have just granted an unprecedented second state |
| 1:37.2 | visit too. Yeah, and this obviously, this state visit was offered early on in Trump's second |
| 1:42.4 | presidency. It was offered as a means of cementing Stama's personal relationship with Trump. We know it's something that Trump coveted. We know that he's coming here, not because like a normal American president, he has a sort of list of things he wants to discuss with the British Prime Minister, not because there's a huge sort of set of policy. Discussions, of course, some of that inevitably will happen. But we know with Trump, he literally said it himself as he was on, on the way here. He said, there's going to be great pictures. And this is about great pictures. Anything which potentially disrupts those great pictures is going to be a problem for him. But obviously, it's taking place. And no one could have predicted this at a time. Maybe some |
| 2:17.9 | people might have done, but you know, it has ended up taking place at what might be one of the |
| 2:22.3 | worst possible moments for both sides. Trump is leaving a country which is being convulsed by |
| 2:28.9 | the political repercussions of the terrible appalling Charlie Kirk assassination about the fact as we |
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