Starmer’s Trump Win Fails to Calm UK Labour Worries About Farage

Keir Starmer’s double victory in securing trade deals with India and the US this week still isn’t enough to pacify restive lawmakers in the UK’s governing Labour Party.

Last week, the British premier faced a breakdown in party discipline after hemorrhaging seats in local elections dominated by the insurgent populist Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. Starmer responded with two of his best days in office, sealing a free trade deal with India on Tuesday followed by a pact with President Donald Trump on Thursday that cut US tariffs on cars and steel.

Keir Starmer dialed into the Oval Office from a Jaguar Land Rover plant for a joint announcement with US President Donald Trump of a new trade pact.

Photographer: Darren Staples/Bloomberg

But for many in Starmer’s ...