Daily Mail: Trump intends to escalate the conflict with the British Prime Minister

US President-elect Donald Trump may postpone a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after his inauguration, the Daily Mail newspaper writes, citing sources.

In early January, the Times newspaper, citing sources, reported that Starmer could go to Washington within a few weeks of Trump's inauguration, which will take place on January 20. According to the Daily Mail, Trump's main advisers are now arguing whether to put Starmer "at the end of the queue" of world leaders who are invited to Washington after Trump's inauguration. The British prime minister will have to "humbly endure insults" if he wants to achieve an early visit to the White House, an unnamed Trump associate said in an interview with the publication.

"Members of Donald Trump's White House team are supporting Nigel Farage (head of the British Reform UK party) in the (possible early) prime ministerial elections in retaliation for supporting the Labour campaign in favor of Kamala Harris," the Daily Mail claims.

An unnamed source of the publication added that Trump is planning a trip to the UK, but he wants to ask the royal family directly to organize an official visit. The publication notes that the Trump administration may humiliate Starmer by not accepting the candidacy of the new British ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson.

As unnamed sources associated with the British government added to the Daily Mail, productive negotiations with the administration of the US president-elect about Starmer's upcoming visit to Washington are "in full swing." An unnamed Trump aide added to the newspaper that "there have been conversations" about the British prime minister's desire to visit the United States next month.

"President Trump has excellent connections in the UK, and he knows that he can move in non-diplomatic and non-traditional ways, and this suits him quite well. He doesn't need Starmer, and he doesn't care about him," an unnamed Trump associate told the publication.

The British media have repeatedly noticed reasons for disagreements between the British Labor government and supporters of the winner of the US presidential election. Earlier, the Trump camp criticized Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney when it turned out that he attended the congress of the American Democratic Party during the US election campaign. In addition, some members of the British government are known for having previously spoken out sharply against Trump, and his supporter, American billionaire Elon Musk, openly condemned the British authorities.

Farage himself last October accused the Labor Party in power in Britain of interfering in the American elections.