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If  Keir Starmer wants Britain firing on all cylinders he should take Donald Trump’s advice: cut taxes and slash immigration, cut crime and stop wasting money on net zero. “Politics is pretty simple”, the US President told the PM and America is booming as a result. But don’t hold your breath for any changes. It is truly remarkable how complicated Starmer has made governing Britain. Energy should be about making money, not losing it in endless subsidies, Trump explained to the beleaguered Labour leader. If energy is cheaper, factories and businesses all make more money, generating more taxes for the exchequer which means taxes can be cut, encouraging more employment. It’s a virtuous circle.

Starmer, however, appears blind to all this common sense. His problem is that he appears to prefer virtue-signalling to making money. Trump is the exact opposite. He has just signed a trade deal with the EU that means it will import $750billion of American energy, oil and Liquid Natural Gas. Now that’s a deal that will see money gushing into US government coffers, allowing Trump to cut taxes for hard-working people and ignite the economy.

Similarly, on immigration, in April illegal migration across the Mexican border into the US was cut by 93% compared to this time last year under President Biden. Just five illegal aliens were temporarily released into the US, compared to an eye-watering 68,000 in the same month the previous year.

Even his political opponents acknowledge Trump’s astonishing clamp down on bogus asylum seekers. Promises made, promises kept was his campaign slogan and he’s delivered soundly on immigration.

Starmer pledged to ‘smash the gangs’ and derided the previous Tory government’s Rwanda scheme, but more than 20,000 illegal migrants have arrived this year, up nearly 50% on Channel crossings for the same period last year. And there is no sign of the number of crossings falling, nor is there any indication France will clamp down on migrant crossings despite the tens of millions of pounds shovelled out of Treasury coffers to do so.

The PM’s woeful record on controlling illegal migration is beginning to provoke social unrest.

We cannot keep taking in unidentified young men at such a rate without risking subsequent rises in sex crimes, shoplifting and other abuses of our hospitality. And just this week, it was revealed that 6,537 asylum seekers have used tax-payer funded payment cards, meant for food and essentials, in gambling venues over the last year.

Trump considers Starmer a friend, largely because he has a strong affection towards the UK via his Scottish mother, but also because the British PM has approached the President with the right amount of deference.

Starmer’s usually impassive face was helpful during the joint press conference at the start of the week, as Trump listed all that’s wrong with the country he loves. Although even the socialist leader had to intervene when Trump doubled down on his dislike of the “nasty” London Mayor he considers is a disaster for the capital.

Trump is remarkably well informed about UK affairs and urged Starmer to copy his approach to family farms in the US, raising tax allowances so that land can be kept within families for the next generation without onerous death taxes.

He also said he considered Reform UK leader Nigel Farage his friend and much of his advice could have come from the centre-right party’s play book. But with Farage’s party riding high in the polls, it’s clearly common sense.

With the US stock market booming and illegal immigration slashed to the bone, it is political populism at its most effective.

Britain should be well-placed to be part of that success. After all, we used to run the American colonies and share so much in common with the leading English-speaking super power. At the very least, Starmer should take off his socialist blinkers and stop bending the knee to disastrous international policies like net zero and put our country’s interests first. Voters like decisive leaders and Trump is the exemplar of that.

“You have a few basics,” Trump helpfully explained from his Scottish golf course. “Low taxes, keep us safe, keep us out of wars, stop the crime.”

If Starmer actually paid attention to Trump’s advice, he’d immediately enjoy a bump in the polls. Otherwise it’s Farage who will emulate the American titan and hopefully be able to turn the tide on our decline by unleashing our native energy and enterprise.

Let’s hope it’s not too late. Certainly Trump will be cheering us on