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Huffington Post // World

Downing Street Defends Keir Starmer's Foreign Trips As Voters Tell Him To 'Focus On The UK'

Monday 18th November 2024, 3:57PM


Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud and Keir Starmer at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.Downing Street has defended Keir Starmer’s foreign trips amid rising voter anger at the amount of time he spends abroad.The prime minister is currently at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - his 16th overseas visit since he entered No.10 just over four months ago.Starmer’s globetrotting has seen him travel to America and Berlin three times and Paris twice, as well as Dublin, Budapest, Azerbaijan, Brussels, Italy and Samoa.According to research by The Guardian, he has been abroad for 26 days since becoming PM.At the same time, Labour’s poll ratings, and the PM’s own approval numbers, have plummeted.One voter in Scunthorpe told a focus group run by the More in Common think-tank: “I would like to see Labour get a hold and just start thinking about the people of the country, because you have seen a lo

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