{"id":392998,"date":"2026-01-27T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392998\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:58:11","slug":"uks-starmer-mocks-macrons-sunglasses-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392998\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s Starmer mocks Macron\u2019s sunglasses \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clip was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@keirstarmer\/video\/7599793475508325654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the PM\u2019s TikTok feed<\/a> with a message to Macron saying: \u201cTalk to me, Goose\u201d \u2014\u00a0a reference to the 1986 Tom Cruise film \u201cTop Gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@keirstarmer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@keirstarmer?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@keirstarmer<\/a> @Emmanuel Macron <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Keir Starmer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7599793499370294038?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u266c original sound \u2013 Keir Starmer<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Starmer told Forde that while he will consider wearing the specs to international summits, he will need his normal glasses back to be able to see in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Macron\u2019s shades have raised eyebrows. \u201cI watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses.\u00a0What the hell happened?\u201d Donald Trump remarked during a speech at Davos.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer also disclosed that Trump regularly rings him on his mobile phone, rather than using official government communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I was in the flat with the kids cleaning pasta off the table after their dinner, and the phone goes and it\u2019s Donald on the phone,\u201d Starmer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother time, I\u2019d say most inconvenient, we\u2019re halfway through the Arsenal-PSG game,\u201d he added, referencing his love of the top-flight soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>In a more serious moment, Starmer defended his decision to travel to China this week, in the first trip to the country by a British prime minister since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a leader on the international stage, you are dealing with whoever is the leader in another country. I mean, it\u2019s that simple,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clip was posted on the PM\u2019s TikTok feed with a message to Macron saying: \u201cTalk to me,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[625,891,6229,28722,141,418,17372,819,59,57,58,420,2797,2306,50,423,56,54,158,55,637],"class_list":["post-392998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-british-politics","tag-china","tag-communications","tag-davos","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-feed","tag-france","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-keir-starmer","tag-macron","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-westminster-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}