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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Sean O'Grady

Voices: How the ‘big, beautiful’ UK-US trade deal led to a big, beautiful friendship

He called him “Donald”. No one calls him “Donald” – maybe not even Melania or his kids. “The Donald”, yes. Though about him, not to him; face to face, it’s “Mr President” or “Sir”.

But that’s what Keir Starmer did – the “woke”, progressive, left-wing human rights lawyer, the kind of chap that Maga loves to hate. The same guy that JD Vance tried, but failed, to bait about free speech when he was last in the Oval Office (Trump notably did not rise to the invitation to join in and publicly maul the British prime minister).

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