As a “fully paid-up admirer of the royal family” it is easy to see what Donald Trump is getting from his state visit to the UK, said Alexander Larman in The Spectator . He has been “given every kind of pomp and respect that he surely sees as his due”. At last night’s glittering state banquet in Windsor, the president described the visit as “one of the highest honours” of his life.

From the King’s perspective, his “ingress into Britain is less welcome”, and it is clear the government “will never be allowed to forget the help that Charles has given them”.

‘A day of maximum peril’

The initial invitation to Trump in February was “part of a calculated charm offensive” by Keir Starmer “at a time when the US seemed destined to abandon Ukraine and tear up Europe’s post-Second World War secu

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