You could be forgiven for thinking Sir Keir Starmer is trying to wind up Donald Trump

IN conscionable 56 days, Donald Trump volition beryllium President of the United States.

Worried satellite leaders speech of Trump-proofing themselves against the instrumentality of The Don.

Yet I fearfulness Sir Keir Starmer appears to beryllium doing everything helium perchance tin to nonstop mixed messages to the adjacent person of our closest ally.

Yes, the PM was up Trump Tower quicker than a greyhound to effort to physique bridges and has ordered his erstwhile bitterly hostile Cabinet to tube down.

But erstwhile it comes to deeds not words, you could beryllium forgiven for reasoning helium was trying to upwind up the incoming US President.

Ever conscious that pro-Gaza Muslim voters endanger the seats of plentifulness much Labour MPs, No10 has refused to ­condemn the International Criminal Court’s absurd overreach successful issuing an arrest warrant for the lone democratically elected and accountable person successful the Middle East.

Downing Street has not ruled retired cuffing Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu if the person of our state landed successful London, alternatively insisting the UK would “comply with its ineligible obligations”.

Even Labour’s ain Friends Of Israel radical has branded the stance “perverse”, but I fishy the incoming Washington medication would person alternatively much prime words.

There is already nationalist speech from Trump allies of “crushing” the UK’s economy if we complied with the tribunal ruling successful public, but Starmer’s emotion of planetary ineligible bodies is good versed.

And it appears helium cannot look a acquisition equine successful the rima either.

After rushing done a bonkers woody to manus the British Indian Ocean Territory connected the Chagos Islands implicit to Mauritius — and paying them to instrumentality it, for bully measurement — the Mauritian authorities was past obliterated astatine the ­ballot box.

America’s incoming apical diplomat Marco Rubio has voiced the evident menace that the woody poses from China, who person been each implicit Mauritius similar a rash, fixed the US/UK basal connected the islands.

He volition beryllium Secretary of State successful 8 weeks’ clip but his British counterpart-to-be, David Lammy, alternatively pathetically claimed it would each beryllium OK this week because: “Donald Trump knows what a bully woody looks similar and this is simply a bully deal.”

But it’s not a bully deal. Paying idiosyncratic other to instrumentality a captious UK strategical plus that has a nonstop interaction connected our relations with the US is simply a unspeakable deal.

However, alternatively of utilizing the precise evident get-out clause that the ministers who agreed the woody person been booted retired of power, I perceive Starmer volition alternatively dispatch his recently appointed National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell to the portion to effort to resurrect the accord.

After blowback implicit the PM’s jet-set archetypal 4 months, which saw him retired of the state connected much than 2 twelve ­occasions, Starmer has yet told his aides to absorption connected the home representation for the adjacent fewer months.

But what has helium achieved for his travels?

Finally convincing the White House to driblet its absorption to the usage of UK-provided cruise missiles connected Russian targets is undoubtedly an important win.

Bonkers deal

Yet his overmuch trumpeted caller pact with the Germans is dormant successful the h2o aft being announced successful the archetypal fewer weeks of Starmer’s premiership — lone to spot Berlin plunged into political  chaos.

And the PM’s past fewer weeks of acme surfing person been an embarrassment.

At the caller ­Commonwealth gathering successful Samoa helium was duffed up by planetary minnows implicit slavery ­reparations.

Most salient satellite leaders could spot that COP29 successful Azerbaijan was going to beryllium a flop and stayed good away.

But no, our Never-Here Keir jetted successful and is present straight tainted by the latest farcical clime circus flop that could person been near to main clown Ed Miliband.

Flying to the G20 successful Brazil, the PM told hacks his fig 1 precedence for the acme was Ukraine, but past fto ­Brazil region calls for a Russian ceasefire from the ­formal conclusions, thing No10 astatine slightest admitted was “disappointing”.

Grip-and-grin photograph op

Oh well, astatine slightest Starmer got a grip-and-grin photograph op with tyrannical Xi Jinping — Trump’s foremost force — conscionable hours earlier China’s President banged up scores of Hong Kong protesters for decades.

Meanwhile, implicit astatine the UN successful New York, the UK delegation has been starring the complaint to person Brazil added to the imperishable members of the Security Council.

There would beryllium a spot for the Germans too, and the Japanese and Indians.

Hardly a Trump-friendly ­policy fixed the President-elect has said clip and again that the US-bankrolled organisation is already taking the mickey to the tune of 18billion American taxpayers’ dollars a year.

And portion Sir Keir was distant past week, what a cleanable clip to sneak retired fractional a cardinal pounds of defence cuts that volition spot a fig of British ships and dozens of helicopters scrapped, conscionable astatine a clip erstwhile Trump is astir to get and telephone for each hands to the platform erstwhile it comes to INCREASING European defence spending.

As if each that were not capable for the incoming White House team, what of the antheral who is inactive consistently linked to being Sir Keir Starmer’s antheral successful Washington?

Costly ineligible dispute

No10 could person poured acold h2o connected Peter Mandelson if his sanction was not truly successful the frame.

Charming nary doubt, wily, canny and experienced — but is the Prince Of Darkness truly the close fit?

His clip arsenic EU Trade Commissioner would suggest otherwise.

His full tenure had attacking tariffs and protectionism arsenic its mantra — the precise breadstuff and food of Donald Trump’s America First agenda.

And helium did not shy distant from winding up the Americans successful that job.

In 2005 helium vowed to motorboat “the biggest, astir hard and costly ineligible quality successful the World Trade Organisation’s ­history” against Washington.

And helium fell retired severely with his US counterpart erstwhile helium accused the US Deputy Secretary of State of taking orders from Boeing, starring to 1 of the much colourful transatlantic wars of words.

Given the delicate messiness our newbie PM’s forays into overseas argumentation truthful acold person near him in, would it not beryllium omniscient to take idiosyncratic a tad much diplomatic to negociate the day-to-day moving of Britain’s astir important planetary relationship?

WHAT was 1 of Rachel Reeves’s past acts arsenic an absorption MP earlier becoming Chancellor?

Sticking a subscription to The Economist connected her expenses.

According to Commons information published recently, the Chancellor-to-be claimed £94 connected June 1 for the highbrow mag, the time aft Parliament was dissolved for the General Election.

Given Reeves is present battling claims she sexed up her CV astir her vocation arsenic an economist earlier she entered No11, I anticipation she is getting worth for wealth from the payer and speechmaking each word.