{"id":38588,"date":"2025-04-12T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/in-the-face-of-trumps-mayhem-europe-is-the-direction-to-which-the-uk-must-turn-and-keir-starmer-knows-it-tom-baldwin\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T08:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:12:38","slug":"in-the-face-of-trumps-mayhem-europe-is-the-direction-to-which-the-uk-must-turn-and-keir-starmer-knows-it-tom-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/in-the-face-of-trumps-mayhem-europe-is-the-direction-to-which-the-uk-must-turn-and-keir-starmer-knows-it-tom-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"In the face of Trump\u2019s mayhem, Europe is the direction to which the UK must turn \u2013 and Keir Starmer knows it | Tom Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PM will not antagonise the unpredictable president, but it is clear to No 10 that Trump is the problem and the solution lies elsewhere<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom Baldwin is the author of Keir Starmer: The Biography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keir Starmer was back at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/apr\/08\/declan-rice-arsenal-real-madrid-football-champions-league\">Arsenal\u2019s 3-0 win over Real Madrid<\/a>, a result that far exceeded expectations of his team\u2019s chances in Europe. And, over the next few days, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he tries to snatch a short Easter break in the warmth and sunshine of that same continent.<\/p>\n<p>Football and family holidays offer him some much needed relief from the grim reality of a faltering economy, towering public debt and terrifying global insecurity, which are all being made worse on a daily \u2013 sometimes hourly \u2013 basis by Britain\u2019s closest ally of the previous 80 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/12\/donald-trump-europe-uk-keir-starmer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PM will not antagonise the unpredictable president, but it is clear to No 10 that Trump is the problem and the solution lies elsewhere Tom Baldwin is the author of Keir Starmer: The Biography Keir Starmer was back at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday to watch Arsenal\u2019s 3-0 win over Real Madrid, a result &#8230; <a title=\"In the face of Trump\u2019s mayhem, Europe is the direction to which the UK must turn \u2013 and Keir Starmer knows it | Tom Baldwin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/in-the-face-of-trumps-mayhem-europe-is-the-direction-to-which-the-uk-must-turn-and-keir-starmer-knows-it-tom-baldwin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In the face of Trump\u2019s mayhem, Europe is the direction to which the UK must turn \u2013 and Keir Starmer knows it | Tom Baldwin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}