In an article for Spiked Online, Columnist Simon Evans parodied Donald Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ as ‘Keir Starmer’s Art of the Deal’.
The UK PM, said Mr Evans, ‘is shaping up to be the worst negotiator in political history’.
I’m going to take a sideways look at Keir Starmer’s deal-making, because I think Mr Evans might be starting from the quite reasonable presumption that a British Prime Minister naturally has the best interests of the United Kingdom at heart, and because of sheer inability, the current occupier of that august office has simply botched it.
I’m not so sure of all that. The truth of the matter could be far, far more serious.
The Chagos Island Deal
Let me explain. As evidence, Simon Evans brought in Sir Keir’s Chagos Islands deal.
The Prime Minister signed this deal in May 2025. It is likely to cost the UK Treasury 10 times the initially quoted £3.4 billion over the next century. If Britain in any recognisable form is still here.
We are leasing back our own Diego Garcia military base for 99 years. And Sir Keir has even handed the homeland of the actual Chagossians to another country. ‘It is hard to find anything but abject defeat in this deal,’ says Mr Evans.
Closer to home, he cites Mr Starmer’s ‘one-in-one-out’ migrant-exchange deal with France.
‘Nearly 1,000 migrants have arrived via small boat since only the beginning of this week’, complains Mr Evans.
Now add in Sir Keir’s deal with the EU, his deal with India, both of which, says Mr Evans, did harm to the UK, and what more evidence do you need?
Son of Toolmaker ‘is bad Dealmaker’
Simon Evans concludes that the son of a presumably good toolmaker is a poor dealmaker. But maybe, just maybe, Mr Evans is missing the point.
What if advancing the United Kingdom is not the metric by which to judge the Starmer’s deal-making?
He would not be the first Prime Minister with an opposite objective from that which you and Mr Evans believed he naturally would have.
David Cameron, for instance, thought more of promoting gay rights in Africa than trade with Africa. While British envoys were solemnly attaching LGBT strings to proposed trade deals, the Russians were doing deals across the continent without any such baggage.
It’s all about what you want to achieve. For Mr Cameron, it was gay rights, not British interests. For his successor Theresa May, it was climate activism and Net Zero which came before the prosperity of the United Kingdom.
Boris Johnson continued that idea and put appeasing Big Pharma and his hapless health advisors before the liberties and real health of the British people during the Covid.
Sacred Cows
So what if Sir Keir has the same mentality, but this time, as they say, on steroids?
What if he is always consciously putting his sacred cows of multiculturalism, globalism, open borders, NetZero, de-industrialisation, British guilt, accommodation, appeasement, ‘moral leadership’, also known as virtue signalling, a long way before any actual British interests which might annoyingly occur to him?
If we adopt that assumption as our starting point, then, in every deal, Sir Keir has manifestly achieved his aims.
But it goes without saying that, outside the elite, the blob, the quangocracy, British people rather want their leaders to prosper them and the United Kingdom and be, as scripture says:
Exod 18:21 … able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness;
The Prime Minister should be, as the Apostle Paul says in Romans 13:
Romans 13:4 … the minister of God to thee for good.
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