A horror show. A pile-on. However you want to describe it, the meeting between US President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office last night was a historic catastrophe: Ukraine and its most important ally in a public slanging match.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s visit to the White House on Thursday provided a first look at how the United States’s “special relationship” with the United Kingdom will fare during President Donald Trump’s second administration.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy played the US president as the Prime Minister and his team 'war-gamed' how to handle the high stakes meeting.