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President Trump publicly revealed that Keir Starmer is quitting before the United Kingdom\u2019s prime minister announced his departure from 10 Downing Street to the public.<\/p>\n

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Trump, 80, who clashed with Starmer, 63, over Iran and other hot-button issues, trashed the unpopular Labour Party leader before wishing him well.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeir Starmer will resign as Prime Minister of The United Kingdom,\u201d Trump posted on Truth Social. \u201cHe failed badly on two very important subjects- IMMIGRATION AND ENERGY (OPEN NORTH SEA OIL!).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish him well!\u201d<\/p>\n

Multiple reports indicate that Starmer intends to resign as prime minister as soon as Monday amid his rising unpopularity and a loss of confidence\u00a0in him\u00a0from the Labour Party, whose MPs are trying to make room for\u00a0Andy Burnham to become their leader.<\/p>\n

But Starmer has yet to confirm his forthcoming resignation. However,\u00a0one of his top cabinet allies, Business Secretary Peter Kyle, publicly refrained from ruling out the possibility of Starmer stepping down.<\/p>\n

Starmer\u00a0had\u00a0attempted to court friendly ties with Trump despite their ideological differences to maintain London\u2019s \u201cspecial relationship\u201d with the US. He faced difficulties navigating Trump\u2019s tariff storm, but ultimately managed to cut the\u00a0first major trade deal\u00a0with the US under the president\u2019s second term,\u00a0with any\u00a0other country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But\u00a0things began to hit a snag during the Iran\u00a0war, in particular\u00a0after Starmer repeatedly rebuffed pressure from Trump to get involved militarily. Starmer also initially hampered the US from using key bases to carry out the attacks against Iran, but ultimately reversed course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

King\u00a0Charles III visited the US in April alongside Queen Camilla and delivered an address to a joint session of Congress to help ease any tension with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know we\u2019re mostly inured to Donald Trump\u2019s disregard for institutional norms and proprieties, but pre-announcing the resignation of the prime minister of America\u2019s supposedly most important ally is pretty extreme, even by his standards,\u201d\u00a0British journalist Robert Peston\u00a0wrote on X\u00a0in response to Trump\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

\u201cUK ministers are genuinely and understandably shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peston claims\u00a0that he was told by a UK cabinet official\u00a0that Starmer \u201chas genuinely not made a decision to quit, or at least he hasn\u2019t yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UK has had four different prime ministers since 2022 as it grapples with an economic\u00a0malaise\u00a0and political discontent. Starmer\u00a0had led the Labour Party\u2019s return to power in 2024 for\u00a0the first time since 2010. But since then, his popularity has tanked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some\u00a0polls have shown\u00a0Starmer\u2019s favorability below 20%.<\/p>\n

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Burnham is generally seen as more left-leaning than Starmer and as one of the Labour Party\u2019s most talented communicators at the moment.\u00a0He has espoused a somewhat populist economic message, though critics argue his rhetoric is vague and doesn\u2019t address some of the difficult structural problems plaguing the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Regardless,\u00a0Burnham is a fresh face for the Labour Party at a time when the Tories are hoping to capitalize on their political woes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But Starmer has yet to confirm his forthcoming resignation publicly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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