Will the Starmer-Trump bromance last?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
There were smiles, laughs, and a few pats on the shoulder - the mood in the Oval Office felt at times amorous as Keir Starmer and Donald Trump got down to business.
The Prime Minister appeared to have defied some of his harshest critics in DC, earning almost fawning praise from the American President and seemingly a series of wins - on tariffs, the Chagos islands, and on Ukraine.
But if Donald Trump is a man who trades on personal relationships and rapport, will that positivity endure once Starmer has left the White House? And how much stock should Britain place in Trump's words, where he often delivers his message with ambiguity and sometimes even contradiction?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.8 | This is a global player original podcast. Today it's my privilege to welcome the Prime Minister of a very special place. |
| 0:19.3 | The United Kingdom to the White House. |
| 0:22.4 | Prime Minister Stamer, you've been terrific in our discussions. |
| 0:26.6 | You're a very tough negotiator, however. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm not sure I like that, but that's okay. |
| 0:31.9 | Very, very special person. |
| 0:33.7 | So if you're looking for good optics, if you're looking for an easier ride than maybe you might |
| 0:41.9 | have anticipated, Donald Trump describing you as a tough negotiator, and I'm not sure I like it, |
| 0:49.1 | it's about as good as you can hope for. Kirst Stama and his team have flown back to London |
| 0:56.0 | and the overwhelming sense that they will be feeling is relief. |
| 1:01.0 | Optically, for the TV cameras, it went basically as well as it could have gone. |
| 1:07.0 | There's even talk in the papers of Stama playing Trump like a fiddle. |
| 1:11.6 | But who is actually playing whom? |
| 1:14.6 | Is there less to this that meets the eye? |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:19.6 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:23.6 | It's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:24.6 | And you cannot believe how much anxiety there was in the British camp |
| 1:31.4 | ahead of this meeting with Donald Trump because you never know what you're going to get. |
| 1:36.9 | And for all that Donald Trump is the man who kind of wrote the art of the deal, he's the world's |
| 1:41.8 | worst poker player because you know instantly if he likes |
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