The weeks and months ahead will determine whether Keir Starmer has been naive.

We will find out just how successful the attempt to deepen a bond with this mercurial president has been.

Has the prime minister actually achieved something with this state visit, or will it amount to nothing?

But there is plenty to absorb from these remarkable two days.

Here are my immediate reflections.

Everyone happy

First, there is no question that both sides are very happy with how it went.

I had a quick chat with Donald Trump 's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, as the PM-president talks wrapped up at Chequers.

Her face and her persona said it all. But she spelt it out anyway for me: "The whole thing has been just great."

"Every part of it. Dinner was the best bit," she told me, before adding: "I j

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