Donald Trump has let rip at Sir Keir Starmer again while warning the Prime Minister has left the special relationship on the brink.
Since the Iran war broke out, the relationship between the world leaders has cooled, with the US President catapulting multiple personal insults at the PM after Sir Keir initially refused to allow US bombers use RAF bases to launch strikes on Iran.
Today, delivering an update on the escalating conflict, Mr Trump took aim at Sir Keir over the war – which the President claimed the US “already won”.
Speaking from the White House, he said: “We have a tremendous long-term relationship with the UK. People would say it’s the best. It was the longest. The oldest should be the best.
“Always was the best until Keir came along. I like him. He’s a nice man. He says everything beautifully. He’s a very nice man with a beautiful family.”
But he turned his ire on the PM soon after, blasting Britain’s military strength saying: “They have 24 boats that do nothing but put mines in the water. This doesn’t sound like a great country.
“This doesn’t sound like a friendly country.”
He added Sir Keir would only offer up a British aircraft carrier “after we essentially won”.
Mr Trump shared his disappointment over the leader, delivering a scathing assessment of the Labour PM’s premiership so far, specifically on energy and immigration.
He said: “I think [Keir Starmer] is a nice man. But I disagree with him on two things, primarily immigration.
“His immigration policy is a disaster, and his energy policy is a disaster. And they’re about the biggest policies you can have.
“You’ve allowed millions and millions and millions of people to come into your country that shouldn’t be there.”
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“And by the way, that’s all over Europe. Europe is a different place. It’s a different place.”
“And you better do something about immigration. And you better do something about energy or you won’t have a Europe,” the 47th President warned.
On energy policies, the President also added he had warned Sir Keir “in a friendly way” about moving away from windmills and reverting to using oil and gas.
He said: “You have something that no other country has – very few countries have anything like it, the North Sea. You have some of the greatest oil deposits in the whole world.
“But they have windmills all over the country, destroying those gorgeous Scottish fields and those beautiful fields all over the windmill which don’t work. They’re tremendously expensive.”
Since the Iran war began, Britain has been slapped with skyrocketing fuel prices – but Sir Keir assured the nation on Monday the UK was working with allies to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
However, he promised the country would not be pulled into the “wider war” on Tehran, confirming talks were being held with European leaders as well as Canadian PM Mark Carney.