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Huffington Post // Technology

Analysis: Why Those Who Want Starmer To Read Trump The Riot Act Will Be Disappointed

Saturday 12th April 2025, 7:13AM


Keir Starmer has chosen not to get into a war of words with Donald Trump.As a former acting Labour leader, Harriet Harman remains a highly-respected figure in the party.When she talks – as she does every week on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast – people tend to listen.So when the usually-loyal peer took the unusual step of criticising Keir Starmer’s approach towards dealing with Donald Trump, eyebrows were raised.The prime minister, Harman said, needs to take a leaf out of Tony Blair’s book and be bold enough to tell a US president when he is wrong, as she believes he is over his tariff policy.″[The government] don’t seem to be able to be telling the country what I think the country needs to hear them saying, which is that what Trump is doing is a bad thing,” she said.“I think that there is a danger if the prime minister, who is the leader of the country, is not telling the story about what is actually happening.“I don’t mean gratuitous insults, but I mean actually owning the narrative. And this was a very small example back when we w

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