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Coffee House Shots

Would Trump and Starmer get on?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump seems to have the Republican primaries wrapped up. He’ll almost certainly be up against Joe Biden on 5 November in the general election. If Trump wins, and in Britain’s own elections in the second half of 2024, Starmer wins, the two will make an odd pair. Will they get on?

Max Jeffery speaks to Katy Balls and Freddy Gray, The Spectator’s deputy editor and host of the Americano podcast.

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0:19.6

Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

0:23.4

I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Freddie Gray.

0:28.2

Today we're going to be asking, would Starmer get on with Trump and also more generally what would a Trump election mean for British politics?

0:36.0

Labor obviously well ahead in the polls in the UK and following the Republican primaries in the last week or so,

0:42.0

it looks almost certain that Donald Trump will be

0:44.3

the Republican nominee and if he is it's quite likely that he could beat Joe Biden.

0:48.6

Katie to start do you think the pair stammer and Trump would get on? I wouldn't naturally pair them if you

0:57.1

asked me which politicians do I think you know on speed dating or best for a romance. You can imagine actually much more European

1:05.8

politicians, potentially Macron and Kirstarma where they've already tried to make

1:10.0

those inroads and then of course also just the fact that Kistama would rather have

1:15.2

Joe Biden as president the Democrats are a sister party to the Labour Party and I

1:20.8

think that given at Kistama is talking about how bad culture wars are, mainly now in relation

1:27.4

to the National Trust, but is talking about this toxifying of politics and so forth. I think it just is the case that the politics

1:35.0

of some of these characters are not ones that he would naturally be disposed to. What's more,

1:40.0

if Kistarmelik to Chumme of Trump, say he probably wouldn't happen in this setting, but you know, say he,

1:47.0

Trump tried to hold Kirstama's hand going down some steps as he did with Theresa May.

1:52.0

I don't think Labour voters would be very impressed. going down some steps as he did with Theresa May.

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