On the face of it, Mark Carney’s election victory presents a challenge to one of Sir Keir Starmer’s key strategic calls. While the prime minister in London has made mollifying President Trump a central plank of his foreign policy, Carney has surged to an improbable victory in Ottawa by adopting an unabashedly confrontational tone towards his southern neighbour.
Starmer says he “likes and respects” Trump, understands his arguments and has a “good relationship” with him — in the hope of favourable treatment. Carney, by contrast, has said that “Trump is trying to break us” and vowed defiance.
Already, those on the British left and centre are trying to make capital out of the contrast. Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader who hopes to take
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