Starmer speaks to Australian counterpart after ‘historic election win’

Sunday 04 Might 2025 4:38 pm

Sir Keir Starmer has spoken to Anthony Albanese after the Australian chief gained a second time period along with his centre-left authorities.

The Prime Minister congratulated Albanese on Sunday morning for his “historic election win” after he turned the primary Australian prime minister to win a second consecutive three-year time period in twenty years.

“Australia and the UK has a robust and enduring friendship, and the Prime Minister mentioned he regarded ahead to working with Prime Minister Albanese within the years to return, together with by elevated commerce and financial safety for working individuals in each nations,” a Downing Avenue spokesperson mentioned.

They mentioned defence and safety, together with shared assist for Ukraine and agreed to “enhance ambition” on the Aukus submarine programme.

Starmer mentioned he would ask his Aukus adviser, Sir Stephen Lovegrove, to journey to Australia within the coming weeks to debate the programme additional. Aukus is a trilateral naval safety alliance between Australia, the UK, and the US.

Throughout a victory speech in Sydney, Albanese urged his Labor Social gathering authorities has elevated its majority within the subsequent Parliament by not modelling itself on US President Donald Trump’s administration.

The celebration branded Australian opposition chief Peter Dutton “Doge-y Dutton” and accused his conservative Liberal Social gathering of mimicking Trump and his division of presidency effectivity run by billionaire Elon Musk.

Dutton misplaced his parliamentary seat of 24 years within the Labor landslide, with analysts arguing that mirroring Trump switched from a political constructive for Australian conservatives to a unfavourable after the US president imposed world tariffs.

Parallels have been drawn to the latest Canadian election, during which opposition chief Pierre Poilievre additionally misplaced his seat.

Poilievre had been considered the favorite to turn out to be Canada’s subsequent prime minister and return his Conservative Social gathering to energy for the primary time in a decade till Mark Carney’s Liberals gained the vote after Trump’s world commerce disputes, together with a risk to make Canada the “51st US state”.

By Helen Corbett, PA Political Correspondent