Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney with his predecessor Justin Trudeau at the Liberal Party’s leadership event, Ottawa, March 9, 2025 (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press/AP)
In a 50-minute special, I joined Times Radio’s Darryl Morris early Monday for an international Week in Review.
Listen to Discussion from 2:06.31
The first half of the programme is devoted to Canada, where Mark Carney — head of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020 — has won a landslide vote to become Prime Minister as leader of the ruling Liberal Party.
We examine how the fortunes of the Liberals, in a nosedive under Prime Minister, have been revived by Donald Trump’s insults of the Canadian nation. The response, embraced by even the mild-mannered Carney, has been “Elbows Up” — a slogan attached with the ice hockey icon Gordie Howe.
After the break, we evaluate the implosion in the UK’s Reform Party. The ousting of one of the party’s five MPs, Rupert Lowe, has spurred criticism — including from Reform’s national outlets, where leader Nigel Farage has a prime-time evening programme — that Farage is running the party as a personal fiefdom.
We highlight the significance of Greenland’s elections on Tuesday, as Trump tries to make it the “51st state” (or 52nd, if you count Canada). And we preview Wednesday’s trip to the White House by Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin for a St. Patrick’s Day photo-op with Trump: will The Donald and his coterie behave?
See also EA on RTE Radio 1: Trump Administration v. Ireland on Trade
