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The Guardian - US
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Andrew Roth in Washington

Starmer tries to woo Trump – but has the US-UK relationship lost its spark?

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Keir Starmer speaks at the White House during a meeting with Donald Trump on Thursday. Photograph: ABACA/REX/Shutterstock

Is there enough love left in the US-UK special relationship or has the magic faded?

That is the question that Keir Starmer arrived in Washington to pose at what Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain’s ambassador to Washington from 2012 to 2016, called “one of the most consequential meetings of a British prime minister and president that we have had since the second world war”.

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