Enda Brady: Keir Starmer has set the clock running on Britain rejoining the European Union

The British prime minister tried to be a Trump ‘whisperer’, giving Donald Trump the royal treatment, only for him to backstab Britain in a matter of weeks. Now Keir Starmer has decided to move on from America and point Britain back towards Europe, where it belongs, writes Enda Brady.

US president Donald Trump with British prime minister Keir Starmer at Chequers in Buckinghamshire on day two of Mr Trump's second state visit to the UK last September. Picture: PA

Donald Trump has taken a blowtorch to the so-called ‘special relationship’ with Britain in such spectacular fashion that the upshot is a seismic shift from Keir Starmer towards the European Union.

The British prime minister gave an address to his nation this week that a lot of people either missed or didn’t want to listen to. The bottom line? Britain will be moving closer to a union it voted to leave in that ill-fated referendum in 2016.