“And you know, I don’t know the politics over here. I don’t know where they stand. I would say one is slightly liberal, not that liberal, slightly, and the other one is slightly conservative. But they’re both good men.”
Starmer, a center-left politician, insisted that he and the Republican U.S. president share similar values, stressing that “we’ve both got a great love of our countries, of our families, and therefore there’s a huge amount that we have already achieved.”
“It just shows that even if you come from different political perspectives, different backgrounds, actually there’s a huge amount of common ground when it comes to what is in the best interests of our two great countries,” he added.
This developing story is being updated. Noah Keate and Martin Alfonsin Larsen contributed from London.
