Brexit was a “great move” by the British people and Sir Keir Starmer should “embrace” the opportunity of working with President-elect Donald Trump, a senior Labour peer has told GB News.
Lord Glasman, who founded the Blue Labour campaign group, also said that the “principle challenge to Labour” at the next general election “is going to come from Reform UK”.
Blue Labour’s influence on the party is growing in part because Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney worked closely with the group after the 2010 general election.
Glasman was asked on today’s Chopper’s Political Podcast if Labour “should be worried about Trump”.
Brexit was a great move and Labour now needs to embrace Trump, says top Labour peer
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He replied: “No. Labour’s got to embrace this because it’s absolutely consistent with what it needs to do to be a transformative government.”
“First of all, we’ve left the EU. Now, this is the big thing that our foreign policy. I love that. I mean that had to be done. And look at Germany, look at France, look at the EU. That was a great move by the British people, and we’ve got to honour it and follow it.
“And that means we’ve got to have a post-Brexit foreign policy and a post-Brexit industrial and economic strategy. We’ve got to recognise that we need to secure our borders. So there’s a huge alignment.”
Glasman added: “Trump is a world historical figure now, and what he represents is the end of globalization. Labour should be dancing in the streets about this really.”
Turning to the next general election, Glasman said: “I think that the principle challenge to Labour is going to come from Reform. I don’t even see.”
“Labour’s got to engage with the disaffection and anger of working class people with the politics over the last 50 years.”
Asked by presenter Christopher Hope what he felt about 100 Labour volunteers campaigning for Trump’s rival Kamala Harris, Glasman said: “Losers. It’s just typical. That wasn’t a prime minister government decision.”
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