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‘Starmer always seems to be abroad’: where has the PM been travelling to?
The Guardian ^ | November 17, 2024 | Jessica Elgot

Posted on 11/17/2024 3:36:41 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

No sooner had Keir Starmer got the keys to No 10 than the new prime minister was out of the country at the Nato summit in Washington. When the prime minister returns from the G20 in Brazil this week, he will have been out of the country for 26 days – five working weeks in just under five months in office.

By the end of the month, Starmer will have taken at least 10 overseas trips, more than any Conservative PM in a similar timeframe. The regularity of the prime minister jetting out of the country has alarmed some in No 10.

Voters are starting to notice it too, according to Luke Tryl, of the polling firm More in Common, who said people in focus groups had started mentioning “Starmer always seems to be abroad”.

So where has the prime minister been travelling to?

Washington DC, 9-11 July Starmer had been prime minister for just five days when he flew to the US to attend the Nato summit, his first meeting with the US president . Plenty of world leaders, many facing electoral difficulties, were said to be keen to meet Starmer on the sidelines to discuss his tactics.

Berlin, 14 July Hardly an onerous trip for the new prime minister, the visit to Berlin was to watch England in the final of Euro 2024, though he was not a lucky charm for the team, who lost 2-1 to Spain.

Paris, 27 July Starmer attended the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, catching a flight over the Channel after arson attacks on the railways. He met Team GB athletes but held no bilateral meeting with President Emmanuel Macron.

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1 posted on 11/17/2024 3:36:41 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

He’s avoiding farmers and seniors... Both of whom his party has screwed over, and both of whom want him burned at the stake. They are two very vocal groups and their dislike isn’t likely to change over the next 5 years, Starmer’s term in office, so he will need to eventually face them.

The Labour party has a hate on for farmers because they cause pollution and make meat... They would prefer to turn farmland over to housing illegal immigrants... And they consider old people to be pollution... Euthanasia isn’t a thing in the UK yet... But the Labour party is working on making it a thing.


2 posted on 11/17/2024 3:56:38 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
So where has the prime minister been travelling to?

Who knows? Iran maybe?

3 posted on 11/17/2024 4:01:02 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He’s in the Inner Party. He gets to jet-set everywhere. And direct access to Big Brother.


4 posted on 11/17/2024 4:05:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m sure he’s doing everything he can for the peasants.


5 posted on 11/17/2024 4:14:19 PM PST by JZelle
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To: MinorityRepublican

the Amazon rain forest?


6 posted on 11/17/2024 4:47:20 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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. .no doubt he’s off running lapdog errands for Klaus and Obama, the ones who installed him.


7 posted on 11/17/2024 5:46:02 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: MinorityRepublican

Starmer doesn’t look like he’s trying to be a broad...


8 posted on 11/18/2024 11:36:50 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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Starmer doesn’t look like he’s trying to be a broad...


9 posted on 11/18/2024 11:36:50 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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