Those on the right of British politics have been thrown into disarray by Trump’s vicious and fallacious attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy and by his willingness to hold friendly talks with Russia while excluding Ukraine and Nato allies.
These opinions are massively out of step with the truth and a direct contradiction of what the British public thinks – and can see with its own eyes.
This could yet be an existential crisis for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party and Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative Party. If Trump’s America really wants to opt out of the post-Second World War rules-based order, in favour of big power politics and dumping its traditional allies, Farage and Badenoch certainly do not want to talk about it.
The Liberal Democrats get it too – though like Labour they are likely to find out that 2.5 per cent of GDP defence spending by 2030 will not be sufficient. A host of Tories have spoken out as well.
The leaders of Reform UK and the Conservatives chose to spend the parliamentary recess at events staged by North American Trump fans. Both spoke in London at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), organised by the Canadian influencer Jordan Peterson. Next Farage joined Liz Truss and US Vice President JD Vance outside Washington DC celebrating Trump’s victory at the annual rally by the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC).
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Read MoreBut he did agree that there should be a timeline towards an election in war-torn Ukraine and hailed Trump as the “bravest man” that he knows, before prematurely thanking his American friends for the help they would give him on his way to certain victory at the next British general election.
Instead, Badenoch echoed Vance’s gaslighting speech at the Munich security conference by castigating the BBC and universities, some of the UK’s globally admired institutions, along with Black Lives Matter: all part, she suggested, of “the real poison of left-wing progressivism, whether it’s pronouns or DEI or climate activism”.
Trump is not Ukraine’s friend. And in the long run, he will not prove to be a friend of either Badenoch’s or Farage’s ambitions either.
Adam Boulton presents Sunday Morning on Times Radio
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