Is Keir Starmer being ghosted by Donald Trump?
Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
As the war in the Middle East continues we are joined by the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper who explains what is being done to evacuate the thousands of British citizens who are out there.
For the Conservatives, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp speaks to Trevor. Our International Correspondent Diana Magnay has the latest from the Jerusalem.
And in an exclusive interview we hear from the Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin who tells us Moscow is "not neutral" in the latest war between the U.S. and Iran.
Our panel this week to digest this is: Spectator Editor Michael Gove, Former RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch, and Politico Executive Editor and host of Politics at Sam and Anne’s Anne McElvoy.
You can watch Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips every week from 8:30am to 10:00am on Sky News
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| 0:27.8 | Together we are beating cancer. |
| 0:35.2 | Welcome to Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips. |
| 0:38.6 | A year ago, in the wake of the disastrous Oval Office meeting between President's Trump and Zelensky, |
| 0:45.0 | Kier Stama offered himself as a bridge between Europe and America. |
| 0:49.6 | Given our special relationship with the United States, it seemed like a good idea at the time. |
| 0:54.5 | And after the president's largely trouble-free state visit last year, the prime minister was |
| 0:59.3 | winning himself something as a reputation as a Trump whisperer. The whole bridge thing was, |
| 1:05.3 | of course, a metaphor. The problem with metaphors is that different people can interpret them very differently. |
| 1:12.5 | For his part, I think Sequeer sees his bridge as a silvery, serene span, floating above troubled waters, |
| 1:19.7 | connecting our great peoples. Mr. Trump, on the other hand, has a far more basic idea of what a bridge is for. |
| 1:26.4 | As far as he's concerned, the main purpose of a bridge |
| 1:29.1 | is to be walked all over. The last thing he wants to hear is the bridge's opinion. It's clear that |
| 1:35.5 | what the American president sees as the UK's hesitation over the assault on Iran has soured the |
| 1:41.6 | relationship that Stama worked so hard to build. |
| 1:45.5 | To be fair, many of Britain's allies in the Middle East share Mr. Trump's frustration with Britain's |
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