Former President Donald Trump recently offered a positive remark about U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, reportedly calling him a "lovely man" and wishing him well. The comment came after Trump had spent months criticizing the British government, according to the source. The context involves Starmer’s decision to deny the United States use of a base in the Indian Ocean for a U.S.-Israel attack on Iran in late February. That refusal, the article notes, led Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, driving up global costs and contributing to inflation in the U.K.—a phenomenon the Liberal Democrats have dubbed “Trumpflation.” The source frames Trump’s praise as unexpected given the prior tensions between the two leaders.