Keir Starmer’s Trump card to woo the US president | Letters

Derrick Joad decries the prime minister’s appeasement of Donald Trump, while Rev Robert Titley sympathises with Starmer. Plus letters from Jane Edwards and Michael Fuller

I don’t think Martin Kettle realises why some of us are so opposed Trump’s visit (I know many are deeply opposed to Trump’s visit. But Keir Starmer doesn’t have that luxury, 17 September). It’s not just his authoritarian domestic policy, tariffs or indulgence of Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians. It’s his toxic influence on British domestic politics enabled by Keir Starmer.

Our chameleon-like prime minister takes on the colours of whichever powerful person he meets. In this instance, xenophobia, racism and the tech bro politics of Donald Trump. Is not his indulgence of Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson’s unpleasant politics due to his wish not to offend his powerful guest? His “land of strangers” speech seems to indicate a willingness to import the divisive practices of Maga politics to Britain to appease his powerful guest.
Derrick Joad
Leeds