IN recent months the UK Government has gone out of its way to massage the ego of the US President, Donald J Trump. On Tuesday they got their reward for Prime Minister Starmer’s kissing of the Donald’s posterior.

Trump’s contempt for democracy and those without dictatorial preferences has been made visible to all by his latest ramblings about 'weak' European leaders.

It seems that he prefers rulers like Putin and Orban to the likes of Starmer and Macron. The sooner European leaders act in concert and ditch petty differences, the better for all. So much for the much-flaunted UK/USA special relationship; we can now have little reliance on USA weaponry for European defence.

One worries for the future of democracy, in Europe and especially the USA, when a US President expresses such views.

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