Is Starmer ready to take on Trump?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Trump is furious with Starmer over his delay in granting the US access to UK bases as part of their military operation against Iran . He's called the UK "very uncooperative" and says Starmer has ruined relationships, even going so far as to say "this is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with."
So where does this leave Starmer now? Is it really a fatal blow to the 'special relationship' or could it actually be advantageous to the Prime Minister?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | And I'm not, by the way, I'm not happy with the UK either. |
| 0:17.3 | That island that you read about, the lease, okay, he made it for whatever reason he made a lease of the island. |
| 0:23.6 | Somebody came and took it away from him and it's taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land there. |
| 0:31.6 | It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours. |
| 0:35.6 | So we are very surprised. |
| 0:37.7 | This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with. |
| 0:41.4 | That is Donald Trump speaking in the Oval Office about Keir Stama. |
| 0:46.2 | Apparently furious at Stama's delay in granting the US access to UK bases |
| 0:52.4 | as part of their military operations against Iran. |
| 0:55.2 | And Donald Trump, with that unerring ability to create a headline, sure as hell has, |
| 1:02.0 | all the papers are, he's no Winston Churchill. |
| 1:05.6 | But is Kirstama actually in the right place on this? |
| 1:10.5 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:16.2 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And if you were in Downing Street yesterday afternoon, |
| 1:22.6 | you probably could sense that ouch and the feel of winded pain after Donald Trump said, |
| 1:29.8 | you're no Winston Churchill. What a insult, what a brilliantly contrived way of securing a headline. |
| 1:37.9 | It was Trump at his best in some ways because that's what he does. I mean, it might have been |
| 1:42.2 | tempted to reply, and you're no Dwight D. Eisenhower either, Mr. President, |
| 1:46.9 | but Kirstama wouldn't do that. |
| 1:48.9 | Instead, in the House of Commons today, |
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