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Donald Trump has given Sir Keir Starmer a brutal new nickname as tensions between the UK and US theaten to completely destroy their long-held ‘special relationship’. The US president is alleged to have described the UK Prime Minister as “a loser” in conversations with friends, according to The Telegraph.

The remarks are said to have occurred in the last fortnight at a private dinner. A source told the newspaper: “Trump has started calling Starmer a loser. He said it at a dinner with friends. He just thinks Starmer has no future any more.” The US president also attacked Sir Keir on Tuesday, saying he was “no Winston Churchill” and “ruins relationships” over his perceived lack of support for the Iran war. He’s told the same paper earlier this week that he was “very disappointed” in the Prime Minister for initially blocking the use of Diego Garcia. Britain had refused the US permission to conduct strikes from RAF bases in the Chagos Islands after citing international law. According to the New York Post, the US President was asked about the recent report by The Telegraph, to which he repeated his line from earlier in the week.

“Well, he’s not Winston Churchill, let me put it that way,” said Trump.

The president alluded to the US and UK’s ‘special relationship’, as referred to many times previously, and added he was taken aback by Starmer’s resistance to work with the Pentagon.

Upon meeting for dinner in Trump Tower two months before he was elected president, Trump was reported to have praised Sir Keir as a “winner”.

Soon after Labour the 2024 election, Trump said of the UK leader: “I actually think he’s very nice. He ran a great race, he did very well, it is very early, he is very popular.”

The tide appears to have turned this week however, as Trump told the New York Post he sees his performance as “very disappointing”, in relation to “our tremendous attack on a hostile nation.”

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“He should be giving us, without question or hesitation, things like bases where we can use others,” he added.

The pair are reported to have spoken recently, but the president did not provide details.

Trump said: “I get along with him fine, but, he sometimes doesn’t do things that he should be doing.”

During Prime Minisiter’s questions on Wednesday, Sir Keir defended the government’s approach to the conflict in Iran, saying protecting British nationals is his “number one priority”.

The Prime Minster said he was not prepared for the UK to join a war without “a lawful basis and a viable, thought-through plan”.

On Sunday the UK agreed to let the US use British military bases but only for defensive strikes on Iranian missile sites.

Speaking to The Telegraph on Monday, Trump said that UK leaders’ decision to block him from using Diego Garcia was unlike anything that had “happened between our countries before”, adding that it he “took far too long”, and described the Chagos deal as “a very woke thing”.