LONDON — A world leader took to the stage this week. The days of his voters being treated unfairly by global markets were coming to an end, he said. Manufacturing and jobs would be brought back home. In the “industrial heartlands” of the rust belt, “community, pride and purpose” would be restored.
But this wasn’t Donald Trump. It was U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and he was talking about his country going green.
The U.K. was in international, multilateral convenor mode Thursday and Friday, hosting 60 countries for a summit on the future of energy security in London.
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And the way it is selling its clean energy and net-zero mission to the electorate at home owes a lot to Trumpism’s basic appeal to voters: putting country first.
