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Trump’s UK state visit could push PM Starmer’s government over the edge

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Is Great Britain on the brink of a Trump revolution?

President Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom this week coincides with signs that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is crumbling.

Starmer’s own party increasingly thinks he has to go — and if Labour fares as poorly as polls presently suggest it will in local elections next May, Starmer will be out.

If he even lasts that long: Scandals have taken out three of his key aides and allies already this month.

The British right, meanwhile, is showing new signs of vigor.

Up to 150,000 people flocked to London last weekend for hard-right activist Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally.

But perversely, Robinson might be the best friend Labour has — the one man who can divide the right severely enough to keep Britain’s anti-populist left in power.

And egging Robinson on is an American billionaire who has thought about splitting conservatives in this country, too: Elon Musk.

Britain is a battlefield — not only between left and right, populists and insiders, but also between bitterly opposed factions on each side.

The makings of a Trump-style political revolution were plain to see........

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