‘The nerve’: Starmer again bizarrely takes credit for Trump’s successful Iran progress

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Well, the UK Prime Minister Kia Starama is back thinking he's on team Trump and once again is bizarrely taking credit for the president's negotiations with Iran. He's posted on social media, I welcome the progress towards an agreement between the US and Iran. We will work with our international partners to seize this moment and achieve a long-term diplomatic settle settlement um to to seize this moment to seize this moment. Does he think I don't know is he standing in the middle of the straight of Hormuz dictating terms the nerve of this man? Joining me now is UK Barrister, broadcaster and Octopus TV President Andrew Eorn. Andrew, great to have you back on the show. Thank you so much for joining me. Um, look, we've seen throughout the uh Donald Trump, Iran negotiations, the back, the two and fro, the UK Prime Minister Kama always seems to want to insert himself and now he's back inserting himself again. Why?

[00:01:02]>> We love it, don't we? There's been that sort of wishy-washy approach from Stara.

[00:01:07]Uh, and Trump has been every single time he talks about Star, there's yet another insult. He said he was no Churchill. you remember that when they was not offering air bases and so on and so forth, he was then sort of turning around and say, "Well, you're too late. We don't need you now. We've already won." Um, what is good and I always say, look, when the love of peace basically surpasses uh everything else, that's how you get uh those sort of solutions. I always say the love of power is surpassed by the power of love. That is how we get peace.

[00:01:38]and Stal's right to sort of turn out his narrative has always been well I've had to focus on the British people. He really doesn't believe that Trump should have started this war in the first place but now it's nearing an end. There's some common ground and the common ground is obviously there should be no nuclear capabilities and it's 95% there uh if if you like. They're talking about this sort of no dust no dollar sort of deal in the next 5 to seven days hopefully.

[00:02:04]Let's make sure that makes sense. But yes, he's certainly claiming the credit and he needs to do that because the trust in K star is at an all-time low.

[00:02:13]And I say that trust comes in on foot but leaves on horseback. And as I say, people are fed up with Stara. They're looking for the next one, seeing what happens. But it's basically trying to rearrange those chairs on the Titanic.

[00:02:27]>> Yep. And it's sinking very quickly just like the Titanic. Andrew, because you know, I did laugh. You know, you spoke about Kia Starama's leadership and I laughed this morning when I read uh that he is insisting quote our plan is working when it comes to his record in power. Uh despite the fact that there's about a 100 Labour MPs now wanting him to resign, I'm not sort of sure what plan he thinks is working, Andrew, because you know, he's just suffered these massive election defeats in the local referendums. Uh his MPs don't want him. Everyone's telling him go, go, go, and he's just clinging on, clinging on desperately. So, what sort of plan could he possibly be on about?

[00:03:09]>> Well, a cunning plan. If you look at Black Adder, that's what they say. I think it's a delusional denial from Downing Street about the the actual chaos that is in place. I mean, he talks about all sorts of things. The the plan working, there's lower inflation. and he says fastest growing G7 economy. NHS waiting lists are down to their lowest in 3.5 years is what they say 3 and a half years. Uh he sites also falling net migration. Um but the reality is this uh yes there are things like the national wage has been rising 4.1% I think it was in April. There's this employment rights act he's got through and they've got the rental rights act as well. They've also scrapped this two child benefit uh to list lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. Uh the reality of this is obviously people with larger families are more likely historically to vote for Labor. Uh so he's appealing to his electric working on that sort of basis, but the reality is he's clutching at straws and nobody really thinks he's going to be in post um in in the next few months.

[00:04:18]>> No. Well, I mean gosh, I thought that he would have been gone already to be honest. I am just so shocked that weeks later we're still waiting thinking is KIA going to go today, tomorrow, when.

[00:04:29]So, look, let's uh let's wait and see on that. Um, now Elon Musk, he has backed in Restore Britain. This is the rival right-wing party to reform UK ahead of another crucial bi-election. And Restore is headed by former reform member Rert Low. Uh Andrew, so why has he got uh Musk's backing? Take us through what is so appealing to the billionaire.

[00:04:54]>> Well, it is interesting. I should say firstly, happy birthday to Errol Musk, which is Elon's dad, who's 80 today. Can you believe it? So, many happy returns to Errol. He's invited me to help celebrate. He's a good friend of mine. I was accompanied to him to the Oxford UN Union debate uh last year. Um Elon has been very public. He's the kingmaker, isn't he? Around the world. And what's happened in the UK, we have all of these parties have popped up. We had on the on the on the right basically. We have obviously the Conservative parties there. Then Restore uh basically came which is Rert Lowe's party which spun out of uh reform. He had a massive falling out with Nigel Farage and reformers had this what I would call the turquoise tidal wave. They had phenomenal success in the various council elections and so on and so forth. And Elon originally supported uh basically reform and Nigel, but now he called him weak source about various other things. So he's going over to uh Rert Low who um I've met I've met all these key individuals. There's another party as well called Advance UK which was another former deputy uh of uh reform and that's somebody called Ben Habib. All of these people I've interviewed on the Andrew Eborn show at appropriate moments and this is what's happening. Elon is the kingmaker. So they're very upset if he turns around and basically potentially splits the votes. And that's what Nigel Farage is trying to say. He's turning and say, "Look, if you support one of these other parties and you don't support me, what you're going to do is effectively let Labor come in through the back door."

[00:06:28]Because people turn around, there are four or maybe even more so-called right-wing parties, what's going to happen? You're going to fragment that vote. And I put that all the time to the various politicians from the right on my show because clearly if you're persuaded to vote in a particular way on on the right hand side of uh policies if you like and you've got a choice of at least four parties um you're going to split the vote. So he makes a good point. The interesting things however Danica is that the statistics prove that that's not necessarily case. There was this turquoise title wave as I say in the council elections. huge huge victory uh for reform but restore in great Yarmouth. They won every single one of their 10 seats. I've been talking to Robert behind the scenes about a lot of this. He has big big plans. So I reckon Nigel is quaking in his boots.

[00:07:20]>> Well, look, it I guess you know remains to be seen because obviously reform did very well in those local elections that we saw a couple of weeks back. I'm I'm curious to know how Rert Low goes here, but you're right, it almost does splinter that vote. So, I guess uh wait and see on this one. Um look, we got to talk about the royals. Now, this was huge news over the weekend. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is being investigated over potential sex crimes amid reports detectives are keen to speak to a woman who claims that she was taken to the former prince's home in Windsor for sexual purposes. Uh we've also seen this one pop up. Police are also looking into an allegation that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor behaved inappropriately towards a woman at Royal Ascot. This was back in 2002. That's according to the Sunday Times. He denies all of these allegations. Andrew, look, it's it's getting worse and worse now for Mount Batton Windsor. How do you see this playing out? What more can you tell us about the investigation?

[00:08:16]>> Well, I can tell you it's an absolute stain on the royal family. It's a seismic moment in royal history. The first time ever uh in 400 years that a royal was arrested. It was on Andrew's uh 66th birthday. Interestingly, um what's very interesting is I as you and I have been talking around the world on more platforms than Paddington about this particular case because there's some things that people sort of misunderstood and basically what it is is this misconduct in public office.

[00:08:46]Now, it's an extremely serious offense and it carries with it basically a maximum of life imprisonment, but it's a very high threshold because you have to first of all point out well he's in public office. Well, so when he's working as a trade envoy, is it working on that sort of basis? There's then the accusation about how serious is it? What did he actually do? And the original allegation for the arrest was to do with sharing papers with Epstein. And at that stage, there was no sort of talk about the sexual side, even though all the various victims on on the sexual side came forward and Epstein's victim saying, "Oh, it's great. It's a good moment." Uh, that wasn't what the arrest was about at all. Uh well, the Tempame's Valley Police, that's the relevant police force, have now come out and said, "Look, let's get some witnesses coming forward. We're appealing for anybody who might have any information, not just about the financial side, but also about the sexual side." And that's when it comes into play because it's talking about misconduct in public office, which will include that sexual side. I should emphasize obviously that uh uh the former Prince Andrew denies all of the charges and it's very important here in the UK and something which I explained on on the various American channels is we cannot speculate. We have this thing called contempt of court where you cannot do anything which might prejudice a fair trial. And what that means is we can't speculate about the evidence. Uh we can't speculate about guilt or innocence because otherwise we could suffer up to two years imprisonment ourselves. So caution is aired on that sort of side.

[00:10:16]What I would say however is sunlight is the best disinfectant. More and more information is coming out and I've mentioned previously on uh the brilliant the brilliant Sky News Australia about these green files. Now not a lot of people talk about these and what these are is that people close to the royal family basically do these handwritten notes uh and they're they're called the green files. They're not a digital copy so they can't be leaked. And what happens is this is all about who they meet, the information beforehand, and so on and so forth. Now, these are specially kept secret files, and when these come to light, uh it'll be staggering to see what was known and by whom.

[00:10:55]>> Look, uh that is a very good point. And I just wonder more broadly, I mean, we can't speculate, right? But I I just wonder more broadly what this means for the monarchy because we know that there have been reports that Prince William wanted his father to do more when it came to Andrew and and even when it came to the deranged Spare the Son, but in particular with Andrew, uh Prince William was said to be frustrated that that that he wasn't that Andrew wasn't kicked out quick enough. Where does this leave King Charles now? Could he honestly be forced to abdicate given these latest allegations?

[00:11:29]Well, it's I don't think he'd be forced to abdicate. There are reasons that he's looking at it. Uh uh the queen in Denmark, she's basically abdicated. Um the late queen, Queen Elizabeth, made it clear that she was going to serve the nation every last dying breath. Um and abdication had that sort of uh uh bitter taste if you like. We had one abdication all to do with Wallace Simpson and and Edward uh on that sort of basis. So the royal family have never been fans of that. But King Charles, to his credit, he's uh not been in the best of health.

[00:12:01]Um he has been brilliant in the last few months. I thought he was absolutely the king of comedy as I called him when he he met Trump and he was making all sorts of wonderful jokes. Even uh prompting Rod Stewart to say a well done. You put that rat bag in his place. A bit of a backlash about Rod saying that divided people and so on and so forth. Um but he is uh King Charles has been superb. He was at the uh the Chelsea Flower Show.

[00:12:26]very recently and my my cousin uh Richard Eborn he's also a designer worked at Royal Royal Horicultural Society in Whizzley um so we looked at that sort of side so he's doing the rounds but it is exhausting and he's had his own challenges and so on and so forth so nothing's been worked out but there have been these plans as there always are because it's always best to be prepared as to what would happen in the event of an abdication and obviously you then get William and Katherine uh who have very very strong views and And I think the royal family's gone through real changes. The stain, as they say, with Andrew being the first royal arrested in 400 years is obviously playing on their mind. William has always said his father, Charles, should have been a lot stronger and a lot quicker, stripping those titles rather than the drip feed and so on and so forth. But in terms of crime, the only minor thing was Princess Anne, who a few years ago suffered a criminal penalty of £500 because her dogy bit somebody in the park. Um, very, very minor in comparison with what Andrew is facing.

[00:13:31]Uh, William will be a lot more ruthless than his father. And I'm sure behind those palace closed doors, uh, strong words have indeed been spoken.

[00:13:40]>> Oh, yeah. No doubt. I I absolutely believe that. But I think that definitely there's been a lot of uh back and forth when it comes to Andrew.

[00:13:47]That's for sure. Now look, speaking of Prince William, I absolutely loved over the weekend. He went on a podcast and we never really get to see that the fun, the lighter sides, the uh intimate moments of the royal family, but Prince William gave a rare glimpse into his marriage. He praised his wife Kate as an amazing mom and wife. Have a listen to part of that interview.

[00:14:09]>> Amazing. She's been through so much in the last couple of years particularly and um yeah, she's been looking forward to the Italian trip a lot and so I'm really glad it went really well and she wanted to go and do lots of research.

[00:14:19]She spends God knows how much time now looking through all the paperwork. She's a proper pro on early years and so most evenings I'm fighting to get past um in the bedroom all the paperwork that she's got lined up ready to read. So I'm so pleased it went well for her and um yeah, I think she came back buzzing >> and seeing her being able to s fulfill those duties must have made you feel uh very happy.

[00:14:38]>> Yeah, very much so. She's an amazing mom, an amazing wife, and literally our family couldn't cope without it. So, um, she's been absolutely stunning. Really has.

[00:14:45]>> Oh, Andrew, I just think that's so sweet that look, they've been together for so long. They absolutely adore each other, but it was just nice to get a bit of an intimate glimpse into their marriage.

[00:14:57]>> Oh, it's been absolutely, as I say, royal resilience radiates on on on that sort of basis. And, uh, William has been basically at a to make sure that the royal family is modernized. You might remember that wonderful Eugenie Levy interview that he did when he arrived on his electric scooter at Windsor Castle.

[00:15:15]He took him down the pub. He spoke about his family, how they're digitally detoxing so they don't let them have mobile phones uh other than maybe for security when they need to go to school.

[00:15:26]All of these sort of things. You're peeking beneath the kimono and what used to happen that the royal family never complained, never explain. Uh obviously now in this wonderful digital age and the age of social media when you've got certain members of the royal family disclosing absolutely everything uh for for large amounts of money it's refreshing for William to speak so publicly in this way and it's a real message and basically when he's doing this he's not just telling the world it's reassuring in Katherine as well who's gone through an awful lot the Italy in Italy they absolutely ador her big message about the sort of ch children was really really powerful and basically about early years and how give me a child until the age of seven I'll show you the man uh is is that wonderful phrase and she's absolutely supporting that uh she has been brilliant she is the new nation film star movie star quality uh that we had last with Princess Diana uh Williams mother so uh it's wonderful to see in public as you rightly say an amazing mom and wife and a brave battler is what she's doing uh on that sort of basis, an inspiration to us all.

[00:16:36]>> Well, she is and she's just so wonderful. And you're right, that Italy trip, the way that she just got back into the job. It was like she had no time off. She's just seamless, a beautiful, classy woman. And I just have so much respect for her and William. Uh so, from the royals, Andrew, now to the non-royals, we've got to end on Mr. and Mrs. Grifter. Uh my two favorites, uh uh Megan and Harry. Now, look, you'll recall of course at their wedding, it was quite a star-studded event. They had all the celebrities there, but according to the Daily Mail, quote, "She's the cheapest. No one wants to hang out with her. Why Megan and Harry have been ditched by A-list friends and insiders."

[00:17:13]Now, I've been reading uh some of the quotes in this. This is what some of the insiders have said. I'll just bring it up now. It says Oprah was tarnished by her association with them. The interview she did in 2021 was so soft and she didn't push back on anything uh anything said. So she was seen as a sickopant rather than a great interviewer. And then on the Cloonies, it says the Cloonies now want nothing to do with them. Certainly Harry and Megan have never been invited to the Clooney's annual fundraiser. The Albies uh which honor humanitarian work, nor have the Sussex's who regard themselves as prominent humanitarians ever won an honor which appears to be quite a snub.

[00:17:50]Look, I mean, Andrew, I am not surprised to be honest that the circle of friends are trying to move away because I just feel like everything Harry and Megan does, it's all about brand Harry and Megan. It's It's never about everybody else. But what's your take on this?

[00:18:06]>> Well, I I think Sussex snubbed and indeed shunned. You're absolutely right.

[00:18:10]A lot of people coming out and the worry is this Danica is that uh Megan is now making sure you can click on her clothes and she'll you can be able to buy that very same dress and she'll get a kickback from it. And people are worried that it's about transactional relationships. You're turning around and the reason she's mixing with these A-listers and they love to be surrounded by A-listers is because they can financially benefit as a result of it.

[00:18:34]Um, I had a wonderful lunch with uh Abigail Spencer who was a co-star in Suits and she was say telling me that actually Megan is lovely. We don't normally hear that in that sort of side.

[00:18:44]It was with Rick Ashley. We we had lunch, the three of us. Uh, and brilliant sort of side. You hear the positive side from Abigail, but a lot of these people now in the public eye, they're turning around. They're very worried about their own brand. Uh, and I always say it's more the brand than the band these days where you're talking about your own personal reputation. you talked about the Oprah in interview and lots of people sort of turned around that it was the fning sort of side and uh it wasn't that sort of we ask the questions but also question those answers in a deep penetrating way. It was a wonderful free ride wasn't it for Megan and Harry on that sort of side. Um so this is what's happening. uh like a lot of these things always question everything but there are certainly those reports that a lot of people those A-listers in particular are being totally uh cautious and the relationship could very well be cooling.

[00:19:33]>> Oh well it wouldn't surprise me honestly it just seems like they live in this Monteito bubble all about them uh and everything else is falling outside of them. Andrew Ebornne a pleasure to speak with you again. Thank you so much for coming on the show.

[00:19:47]>> It's an absolute delight. Looking forward to seeing you next time.