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House of Commons calls on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trump’s ‘interference’ in European politics
The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on Thursday.
The House of Commons rounded on Donald Trump’s national security strategy, which stated that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and vowed to help the continent “correct its current trajectory and promote patriotic European parties”.
Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of parliament’s joint committee on the UK government’s national security strategy, said: “The United States consensus that has led the western world since the second world war appears shattered.
Uhuh, let’s talk Brexit shall we?
Brexit illustrates the United Kingdom’s rightward political shift by emphasizing national sovereignty, border control, and resistance to supranational governance, even in defiance of elite institutional consensus. It also reflects a view of free speech as contestable and negotiable, with speech increasingly treated as something fought over within legal, political, and cultural power structures rather than as an unquestioned liberal absolute.