Donald Trump’s second-term will begin today, kicking off four years which are likely to push the US-UK ‘special relationship’ to its limits. Much has been made of the tension between Sir Keir Starmer and the incoming US president in the build up to the day, with the pair seeming to disagree on a number of fronts.
How the prime minister will navigate this challenge will now be a key question for the rest of this government – one it’s likely he and his ministers never wanted to find out the answer to.
