The US president Donald Trump has criticized his relationship with Britain under Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying he is “very sad” to see it is “obviously not what it was”.
Condemning Starmer for not backing the US-Israeli attack on Iran, Trump suggested that the prime minister “could be” pandering to the UK’s Muslim voters.
Britain is “not such a recognizable country” anymore Trump told the Sun newspaper adding that the UK should “stop people from coming in from foreign lands who hate you”.
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When asked if Starmer was “pandering” to Muslim voters, Trump said “it could be” the case.
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Middle East Eye reports: Starmer announced on Sunday night that the US would be allowed to use British bases for the purpose of targeting Iranian missile sites – after having refused to be involved in the US-Israeli strikes when they started on Saturday morning.
Britain initially blocked the US from using the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands to strike Iran, a decision reportedly taken following legal advice from Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer.
A YouGov poll on Monday showed the British public opposes US military action against Iran by 49 percent to 28 percent.
Fifty percent of the public also oppose the government allowing the US to use British airbases, with only 30 percent supporting the move.
Trump told The Sun: “This was the most solid relationship of all. And now we have very strong relationships with other countries in Europe.”
He said Starmer “has not been helpful”, adding: “I never thought I’d see that. I never thought I’d see that from the UK.”
He added: “It’s very sad to see that the relationship is obviously not what it was.”
Starmer ‘just very different’
Trump praised Nato, and said: “France has been great. They’ve all been great.
“The UK has been much different from others… they’ve all been pretty much great other than…we think Keir’s was just very different.”
Trump said Britain is “not such a recognisable country. I mean, you look at what happened over the last period of time and it’s very different.
“London is a very different place, with a terrible mayor. You have a terrible mayor there, some terrible people. But it’s a very different place.”
