29 April 2025, 14:45 | Updated: 29 April 2025, 14:51

By Jennifer Nadel

Mark Carney’s remarkable victory is good news not just for Canada but also for us in the UK.

It shows that there is an alternative to appeasing Trump - an alternative that relies on courage, decency, and truth.

Here in the UK, we might not be facing the same territorial threat from Trump’s ambitions. Trump has stated no lust for his empire to include our treasured isles, but we face an existential threat from Trump that is equally as grave.

Trump threatens all that we value as a society. He has declared global war on the rule of law; human rights, decency, democracy and most cruelly, the vulnerable. We need to be under no illusion as to what is at stake.

The far right flourishes in fear. Carney has shown that it is possible to turn the tide by taking a stand. Trump may not have been on the ballot paper, but it was Carney’s opposition to everything he stood for that secured his victory.

While the government here tries to face both ways, appeasing........

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