The US vice president has arrived here and I think we are all agreed that if the visit is to be a success, the great thing is to keep him from the other American who resides in the Cotswolds where he’ll be spending much of his time: Ellen DeGeneres, the controversial former talk-show host. If I were Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, I’d be making that a priority.
But the important thing is that the visit should be a success. There are small, vocal groups who intend to go out of their way to make sure it isn’t, and that the vice president and his family are made to feel unwelcome — notably the Stop Trump Coalition, who seem to want to make him go home early.
