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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin

Burnham and Trump are unlikely bedfellows – but the PM cannot afford for their first meeting to go badly

Keir Starmer has told friends that when Donald Trump infamously dropped the text of their historic UK-US trade agreement on the ground, after years of negotiations, the then prime minister’s first thought was “for f***’s sake”.

In front of a gaggle of photographers and television cameras, he followed his instinct and bent down to pick up pages of the precious deal, on which thousands of British jobs depended.

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