{"id":427786,"date":"2025-09-16T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427786\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:32:10","slug":"trump-lands-in-britains-autumn-of-discontent-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427786\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lands in Britain\u2019s \u2018autumn of discontent\u2019\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starmer has brought in multiple officials who worked under former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to try to turn things around. But\u00a0one person who speaks regularly to No. 10 argued that unlike Blair, the current prime minister doesn\u2019t have a \u201cStarmerite\u201d ideological caucus, and that MPs\u2019 loyalty to him was forged during his 2024 election victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economic stagnation<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the left of British politics, where Starmer also has his detractors, the public discontent has been given a different diagnosis. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Labour MP Clive Lewis, a key figure in a new group called Mainstream, which has been set up to fight a political drift to the right, said: \u201cPeople want respect in their lives. They want to be able to know that their children will have a warm, safe home, that they will be able to have a decent education over which they have a say.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lewis blames the \u201cform of capitalism that we have adopted in this country\u201d for the disillusionment, and warns change is needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means that many of the vested interests, the corporations, the banks, the financial institutions, the billionaires, the multimillionaires, they\u2019re gonna have to take a hit in terms of the power and influence that they have. This doesn\u2019t work without that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2222269275-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7166538\"  \/>A key ally, Peter Kyle, acknowledged the \u201csense of disquiet and grievance\u201d\u00a0in British society in Sunday interviews, acknowledging that \u201cimmigration is a big concern.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0| Carl Court\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Luke Tryl, executive director of the More in Common think tank, which regularly tracks public sentiment, said: \u201cThere is no doubt that many Britons are deeply disillusioned with the state of the country today, and few people are happy with the trajectory the U.K. is on.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer has brought in multiple officials who worked under former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to try to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1213,9311,5108,331,748,1193,145937,145613,32,2266,33,295,393,36,4884,40,807,6657,384,1144,60394,28300,48,712,2824,1200,59423,27005,1201,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-427786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-angela-rayner","11":"tag-asylum","12":"tag-banks","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-british-politics","15":"tag-clive-lewis","16":"tag-diane-abbott","17":"tag-donald-trump","18":"tag-education","19":"tag-elections","20":"tag-elon-musk","21":"tag-england","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-great-britain","24":"tag-immigration","25":"tag-keir-starmer","26":"tag-migration","27":"tag-nigel-farage","28":"tag-northern-ireland","29":"tag-peter-kyle","30":"tag-peter-mandelson","31":"tag-rights","32":"tag-scotland","33":"tag-tanks","34":"tag-tax","35":"tag-tommy-robinson","36":"tag-tony-blair","37":"tag-trade","38":"tag-uk","39":"tag-united-kingdom","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115211635729422819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427786","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=427786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}