{"id":299857,"date":"2025-07-29T00:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299857\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:50:22","slug":"keir-starmer-should-take-donald-trumps-message-on-board-and-get-tough-to-make-britain-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299857\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer should take Donald Trump&#8217;s message on board and get tough to make Britain great again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get tough, PM\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DONALD Trump has run rings around the EU \u2014 and in the process shown the folly of the Remainiacs who tried to defy Brexit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Terrified of the President, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/36036923\/us-eu-landmark-trade-deal\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eurocrats have been utterly humiliated<\/a> in trade talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Keir Starmer speaking.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Reuters\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/u-s-president-donald-trump-1012984550.jpg\" data-caption=\"Trump told Starmer that cutting taxes and curbing immigration is the only way to make Britain great again\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/u-s-president-donald-trump-1012984550.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Trump told Starmer that cutting taxes and curbing immigration is the only way to make Britain great againCredit: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>In a deal described by French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou as \u201csubmission\u201d, the EU accepted punishing 15 per cent tariffs on goods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It agreed to plough billions of investment into America. Brussels also ripped up its various green pledges in order to import $750billion of US gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Britain has been free to do its own deal with Trump, resulting in much lower tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/keir-starmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a> \u2014 who spent years trying to wreck the chances of a Brexit deal \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/politics\/36052112\/trade-deal-trump-brexit-deal-breakfast\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now benefits from the UK being free<\/a> of the dead hand of the EU Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE FROM THE SUN SAYS<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lesson here for the PM that he failed to grasp during negotiations for his recent \u201creset\u201d with the EU, which has ended with us once again taking rules from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe<\/a> while selling out our fishing fleet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That under pressure the EU WILL crack and give way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Trump had another message for Starmer which he would do well to take on board:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/35410713\/sun-sunday-end-illegal-workers\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cutting taxes and curbing immigration<\/a> is the only way to make Britain great again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, get tough, PM.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rot\u2019s up, doc\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>OF the many mistakes Labour has made in its first year in power, will handing militant doctors a 22 per cent pay rise last year prove to be among the worst?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awkward moment Trump blasts \u2018nasty\u2019 Sadiq Khan for \u2018terrible job\u2019\u2026 before Starmer interrupts: \u2018He\u2019s a friend of mine!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t it dawn on ministers that all it would achieve would be another absurd pay claim from the Marxist BMA this year? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/35926253\/junior-doctors-strike-pay-bma\/#:~:text=Nearly%202%2C000%20junior%20doctors%20earned,The%20Sun\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This time it is a huge 29 per cent<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now patients who already receive a terrible service are in for a summer and autumn of chaos as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/health\/36040890\/nhs-nurses-set-to-join-doctors-miserable-5-day-walk-out-after-rejecting-latest-pay-deal\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nurses and millions of other NHS workers<\/a> threaten multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strikes<\/a>, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only in the public sector would you demand a whacking pay increase for delivering a massive decrease in productivity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Proud of you\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHLOE Kelly \u2014 born and raised on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> council estate and now a global superstar \u2014 spoke for a nation after lifting the Euro 2025 trophy when she declared she was proud to be English.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her teammates will also take their tournament mantra of being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/36037829\/chloe-kelly-euro-winner-england-spain\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Proper England<\/a>\u201d into today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/36043613\/england-lionesses-victory-parade-route-map-euro-2025\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">triumphant trophy parade<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After decades of being made to feel embarrassed about being English, it feels good for us to be able to celebrate unashamedly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you, Lionesses.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get tough, PM\u00a0 DONALD Trump has run rings around the EU \u2014 and in the process shown the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,32,393,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,528,18624,526,520,27133,118,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-299857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-labour-party","18":"tag-refugee-crisis","19":"tag-section-newsopinion","20":"tag-sir-keir-starmer","21":"tag-sun-says","22":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114933781675823373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}