Keir Starmer chose silence after Trump’s Venezuela invasion - and permanently destroyed his credibility on international law. Right, so Keir Starmer has just volunteered Britain for permanent irrelevance. Donald Trump removed Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela by force, and the British prime minister responded by waiting for Trump’s press conference to offer a response to it, as if the law only switches on once Washington has finished talking. That pause wasn’t prudence. It was submission, performed slowly and blatantly in public, by a man who keeps advertising himself as a human rights lawyer, yet can watch international law get dumped without so much as a squeak. This isn’t a one-off lapse and it isn’t about a bad day at the office. You’ve seen this move before. Law shouted from the rooftops when it’s safe, law whispered into a cushion when it point ...