Politics3/17/2026•The Guardian

Kemi Badenoch calls Trump’s repeated criticisms of Starmer ‘childish’

Kemi Badenoch calls Trump’s repeated criticisms of Starmer ‘childish’

Tory leader says US president’s words ‘completely wrong’ as she tries to distance herself from his war on Iran Kemi Badenoch has called Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of Keir Starmer “childish”, as the Conservative leader continued her recent moves to distance herself from the US president and his military action against Iran. Speaking shortly before Trump yet again singled out Starmer, saying the prime minister had not been sufficiently supportive of the US war, Badenoch used a social media video to describe Trump’s actions as counterproductive. Describing herself as “Keir Starmer’s biggest critic”, Badenoch went on: “But the words coming from the White House are completely wrong. I think it’s actually quite childish. There is a lot that can be said behind closed doors. “We have got [Ukraine’s] President Zelenskyy in our country today. The western alliance having an argument with itself, I think, sends the wrong signal to our opponents, in Iran or in Russia. “We need to be strengthening between the UK and the US, irrespective of who is president and who is prime minister. But I think those words coming from the White House were childish.” Such a

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