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Reader’s letter: US snub to be expected




On Monday, January 20, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the USA and for his second term in office.

Like him or loath him, Mr Trump will — again — be the most powerful person on earth and will be very experienced and hugely influential.

Many people resent Britain’s almost slavish adherence to whichever President is in power in America. Yet, it’s a fact — the US economy, culture and more set the agenda here in Britain.

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With this in mind, how could Sir Keir Starmer have deliberately chosen to irritate Mr Trump even before he came to office?

Sitting in my kitchen in Newark it was obvious to me that Kamala Harris would struggle, especially after Donald Trump so remarkably ‘dodged that bullet’.

Yet, with all his advisors and (I thought) finely-tuned political antenna, Sir Keir still sent Labour activists to campaign against the probable winner.

How tin eared can you get?

Wouldn’t it have been better to have done nothing and watched how events unfolded?

Well, now we see the result. Neither our PM, Foreign Secretary nor our nominated ambassador to the US was invited to Mr Trump’s inauguration.

I have no doubt that there are many more and much more important snubs to follow. — Patrick Mercer, Newark.



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