'If Starmer seeks advice from Macron then God help Britain'
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'Macron and Starmer are made for each other'
Gavin Mortimer for The Spectator
While a meeting with Emmanuel Macron might have made Keir Starmer "appear statesmanlike" back in 2017, "now Macron's lustre has long since faded, at home and abroad", writes Gavin Mortimer for The Spectator. If the Labour leader "seeks advice from Macron on how to govern then God help Britain", with "poverty, violent crime and sexual assaults" having "rocketed in France". But perhaps Starmer "is like every 21st century left-wing leader: far more interested in the Progressives than in the Proletariat".
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