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Trump Compares Starmer To Neville Chamberlain In Latest Jibe
Donald Trump has appeared to compare Keir Starmer to the British prime minister who tried to appease Adolf Hitler before the Second World War.
The US president said “we won’t want another Neville Chamberlain” in his latest jibe at the prime minister.
Discussing the conflict at an Easter event at the White House on Monday, the president told reporters the UK had “a long way to go”.
He said: “We won’t want another Neville Chamberlain, do we agree? We don’t want Neville Chamberlain.”
Chamberlain was Tory prime minister in the 1930s and is most remembered for the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany.
After returning from talks with Hitler in Munich in 1938, he produced a piece of paper with the German leader’s signature which declared indicated “peace for our time”.
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