Buckingham Palace has endured its fair share of shocks and crises over the years. But last night, His Majesty was hit by the latest bombshell: Sir Ed Davey will not be attending his upcoming banquet to host Donald Trump. The Liberal Democrat leader is boycotting the event in protest at the President’s stance on Gaza. How will they fill the void…
Writing in (where else?) the Guardian, Davey declared that skipping the Palace knees-up ‘goes against all of my instincts’, but was ‘the only way I can send a message to both Trump and Starmer’. With the PM, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch all publicly keeping schtum on their own private thoughts about the current U.S president, clearly Davey is hoping to capitalise on the current anti-Trump void in British politicis. Davey’s stunt has grabbed some headlines in the last week of recess. Enough to change US Foreign Policy? Probably not.
It’s not the first time the Lib Dems have done this of course. Back in 2019, Davey’s predecessor Sir Vince Cable missed out on pomegranate-glazed Lamb (oo la la) at Trump’s first state banquet. He was joined by fellow protesters Jeremy Corbyn (of course) and the then-Speaker John Bercow.
Davey dropped the news on the same day YouGov revealed that only 37 per cent of the British public can identify him by photograph. Hopefully, they all take notice of his sacrifice so Davey doesn’t go hungry for nothing.
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