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You don’t have to like Keir Starmer to enjoy these 15 clapbacks at Liz Truss for kissing up to Trump over that Churchill barb

Oonagh Keating. Updated March 4th, 2026

We’re sure you’re aware of Donald Trump’s attempted burn of Keir Starmer, in which he said that the PM is “not Winston Chruchill”.

Thanks for that, Sherlock Bonespurs – we hadn’t noticed.

Many people pointed out that Trump is sitting in a massive glass house chucking stones like they’re about to go out of fashion, and that – frankly – Churchill would have given him short shrift.

However, a certain faction in the UK lined up to indulge in a bit of Trump licking, and right there at the head of the queue was the 49-day PM, Liz Truss, seen here boosting the right-wing journalist Steven Swinford.

When they’d stopped laughing at her, or in between sniggers, this is what people had to say about that.

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We’ll just leave this here.

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