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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Archie Bland and Aamna Mohdin

Wednesday briefing: Trump arrives in the UK – and his playbook is reshaping the British right

Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Stansted Airport near London on Tuesday.
Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Stansted Airport near London on Tuesday. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Good morning. Donald Trump arrived in Britain last night, landing with his wife, Melania, at Stansted airport and then taking a helicopter to central London. But he had an advance party: the mass of Maga political messages that have been picked up and repurposed by some fellow travellers, namely those of the British nationalist right.

British politicians have imitated their frankly sexier US cousins for decades, of course. But something distinctive to the Trump era has been particularly apparent in recent months: the borrowing of an inescapably American political style in order to implant it in a political culture that barely knows what to make of it.

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