Senior Labour figures are urging Keir Starmer to take a leaf out of Donald Trump’s book and make more frequent media appearances in an attempt to dominate the political agenda as the US president does.
MPs told the Guardian they want the prime minister to act more like Trump, who has upended political convention by televising large parts of his cabinet, holding long bilateral meetings on camera and calling in to live television shows.
Note that he needs to be countered with an economic populist (read: at least center-left) agenda. They need to actually do things for the people first. Rightwing demagogues don’t have that problem because their followers axiomatically think bigotry is good, but you wanna replicate that on the left you’ll need the Bernie version, not the Trump version.