{"id":191831,"date":"2026-04-10T05:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191831\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:35:50","slug":"keir-starmer-lashes-out-at-trump-putin-as-uk-energy-bills-skyrocket-im-fed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191831\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer lashes out at Trump, Putin as UK energy bills skyrocket: ‘I’m fed up’"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday\u00a0pointed fingers at President Trump<\/a>\u00a0and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for volatile energy bills hitting London, saying he was \u201cfed up\u201d with global conflicts wreaking havoc on global oil prices.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world,\u201d Starmer told\u00a0ITV News<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The British prime minister has repeatedly criticized Trump, blaming him for global turmoil driven by the Iran war hammering households with sky-high energy costs \u2014 even as his own response remains limited.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a meeting to discuss the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran and the impact on the Strait of Hormuz, in London, Britain, March 30, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n

In the interview, he doubled down on his stance that the UK would not follow Trump into conflict, reiterating that \u201cour bases will not be and are not being used for wider offensive and particularly for offensive on civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the get-go, we\u2019ve been monitoring this situation. So I\u2019m pretty clear in my own mind about what we\u2019ve agreed and what the use of the bases are,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been saying we are not going to be dragged into this war because I say there must be a lawful basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat matters if you\u2019re going to commit our service personnel to risk their lives,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Starmer\u2019s ire comes ahead of King Charles III\u2019s state visit to the United States later this month \u2013 a visit Trump is looking forward to but is seen in the UK as a politically awkward moment for the king, who will be caught in the middle of the two men\u2019s political feud.<\/p>\n

The prime minister, who is visiting the Middle East this week,\u00a0first drew Trump\u2019s ire in February when he denied the US request to use a British base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for the war on Iran.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump holds a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington DC, United States. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Deputy Prime Minister, Chief of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko during their meeting at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Thursday, April 9, 2026. AP<\/p>\n

Beyond calls for \u201cde-escalation\u201d and diplomatic talks, critics say the prime minister has offered little to quell tensions.<\/p>\n

His government has focused on international coordination and long-term resilience \u2014 including closer ties with Europe and securing shipping routes \u2014 rather than intervention.<\/p>\n

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And Starmer wasn\u2019t the only British official showing annoyance with the president.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s\u00a0Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper blasted Iran\u2019s push to charge a toll for ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

\u201cCountries cannot simply hijack those kinds of international transit routes and unilaterally apply tolls,\u201d\u00a0she told the BBC<\/a>. \u201cThey cannot do that as part of the laws of the sea and the United Nations arrangements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has expressed support for such a plan and even speculated the United States could collect a portion of the fees.<\/p>\n

Before the war with Iran, passage through the strait \u2013 which is a critical waterway for oil and cargo to flow between the Middle East and Europe \u2013 was free.<\/p>\n

But Iran has floated charging $1 per barrel of oil contained in a cargo ship. Those massive ships can carry a million or more barrels per trip \u2013 meaning the toll would add up quickly.<\/p>\n

Britain is leading a group of about 40 countries seeking to come up with a military and diplomatic plan to reopen and safeguard Hormuz but they have not shown many signs of progress.<\/p>\n

Cooper told the BBC the freedom of the seas is a \u201cprinciple that applies right across the globe, and it\u2019s crucial for the cost of living back here at home. It\u2019s crucial for the global economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday\u00a0pointed fingers at President Trump\u00a0and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for volatile energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,16325,14670,16771,9,11,10,87,9045,5878,58,9048,1076],"class_list":{"0":"post-191831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-keir-starmer","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-vladimir-putin","20":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}