Trump Threatens To Cancel the US-UK Trade Deal In Latest Attack on Starmer

Donald Trump has threatened to rip up the US-UK trade deal as he launched yet another attack on Keir Starmer.

The US president said the agreement “can always be changed” as relations between the two countries remain in the deep freeze.

Trump has made a series of jibes at the prime minister after Starmer initially refused to let US jets use RAF bases to bomb Iran.

He was again repeated them in an interview with Sky News, as he also condemned the PM’s policies on North Sea oil and immigration.

The president said: “I think I like Starmer, but I think that he’s made a tragic mistake in closing the North Sea oil. You see your energy prices are the highest in the world and I think he’s made a tragic mistake on immigration.

“I love your country and I would love to see it succeed, but if you have bad immigration policies and bad energy policies you have the worst of both. You can’t succeed, it’s not possible.”

He added: “A lot of people ask me what I think of [Starmer’s policies] and I think they’re insane … your country is being invaded.”

Asked who the UK is being invaded by, Trump said: “By illegal immigrants from all over the world, including those from prisons, drug dealers, people from mental institutions. Your country is being invaded.”

Last May, Trump said America and Britain had agreed a “full and comprehensive” trade deal that would “cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come”.

But the president told Sky News: “We gave them a good trade deal, better than I had to, which can always be changed. We gave them a trade deal that was very good because they’re having a lot of problems.”

His comments come as the UK government tries to agree closer economic ties with the European Union.

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