Carole Malone has issued a scathing assessment of Sir Keir Starmer’s performance during his meeting with Donald Trump describing the Labour leader as looking like a "rabbit caught in the headlights".
The Prime Minister met with the US President on Monday during Trump’s visit to his golf resort in Scotland.
But rather than projecting confidence on the international stage, Starmer came across as "weak and uncomfortable," according to Malone, who added the Prime Minister was “clearly out of his depth”.
Malone said: "I just think it made him look weak. The stuff Trump was saying the way he attacked subsidies for wind turbines, how he said we need to provide cheaper energy, and how he said the person who tackles immigration is going to win the next election he was spot on with all of it.
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"Everything he said was exactly what Keir Starmer isn’t doing in this country.
"And I think you could see it when Starmer and his wife Victoria were there, the two of them were literally squirming. They couldn’t keep a straight face while Trump was speaking.
"Trump was right about everything he said regarding what we should be doing. And Starmer? He never once said, 'this is what I’m doing. This is how I’m running things.' He just let a foreign leader the leader of the free world tell him how to run his own country."
GB News host Patrick Christys agreed, calling the meeting “incredibly emasculating”.
Malone said: ""Only because Starmer allowed it to be. Because he didn't chip in, he didn't talk. He just sat there like a little boy being told off."
Political commentator Benjamin Butterworth disagreed saying: "Look, you've tried really hard to pretend this didn’t go well when quite obviously, it did go very well.
"The first thing Donald Trump said was that Keir Starmer is, quote-unquote, "a very good leader." He said Starmer is dealing with immigration.
"They clearly have a remarkably good relationship that’s how the UK secured the trade deal ahead of other countries and organisations.
"Donald Trump has praised Keir Starmer at every juncture. Now, there’s no disputing that they’re not natural bedfellows.
"But quite frankly, if you’re a patriot, you should take pride in the fact that a British Prime Minister from a very different political tradition has managed to build a working relationship with someone as combative as Trump.
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"As for the meeting today some people are suggesting Starmer should’ve argued back on certain policies. But Donald Trump is allowed to have his views.
"Keir Starmer knew that throwing a Zelensky-style tantrum wouldn’t have achieved anything. He behaved with dignity.
Malone fumed: "He looked like a rabbit caught in car headlights."