{"id":72715,"date":"2025-02-28T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72715"},"modified":"2025-02-28T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:10:41","slug":"keir-starmers-tactic-of-sucking-up-to-trump-paid-off-handsomely-after-an-unlikely-labour-stand-in-for-donald-helped-rehearse-the-presidents-alpha-male-handshake-writes-jason-groves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/28\/keir-starmers-tactic-of-sucking-up-to-trump-paid-off-handsomely-after-an-unlikely-labour-stand-in-for-donald-helped-rehearse-the-presidents-alpha-male-handshake-writes-jason-groves\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer&#8217;s tactic of sucking up to Trump paid off handsomely&#8230; after an unlikely Labour stand-in for Donald helped rehearse the President&#8217;s alpha male handshake, writes JASON GROVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/02\/28\/06\/95680347-14446103-image-a-3_1740723658013.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Keir bagged diplomatic wins on trade and the Chagos Islands during the discussions\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-b9b53010-f59b-11ef-8904-8379e0f52880\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/keir-starmer\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Keir Starmer<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was in buoyant mood as he arrived at Washington\u2019s Andrews Air Base last night to fly home from a crunch trip to the\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-b9f34a80-f59b-11ef-8904-8379e0f52880\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/white-house\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">White House<\/a><\/span> which had gone far better than feared. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14446103\/Keir-Starmer-tactic-sucking-Donald-Trump-paid.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Keir Starmer\u00a0was in buoyant mood as he arrived at Washington\u2019s Andrews Air Base last night to fly home from a crunch trip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/starmer-and-Trump-hold-hands.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72716,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72715\/revisions\/72716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}