'If Starmer seeks advice from Macron then God help Britain'

Labour's top team of David Lammy, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the Gare du Nord station in Paris

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Gavin Mortimer for The Spectator
Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times
Marina Hyde for The Guardian
Kate Lister for the inews site

By The Week Staff

published 19 September 2023

'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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