"In his speech at the state banquet last night, Trump delivered used some uncharacteristically sophisticated and lovely metaphors to describe the US/UK relationship. He said: We're joined by history and faith, by love and language and by transcendent ties of culture, tradition, ancestry and destiny. We're like two notes in one chord or two verses of the same poem, each beautiful on its own, but really meant to be played together."
"Starmer defends his use of flattery diplomacy with Trump on the grounds that it delivers for Britain and, with No 10 announcing US investments in the UK worth 150bn there is evidence to suggest it's working. But, to return to Trump's analogy, there are others who suspect that, if anything is being played in all of this, it's us. On the Today programme this morning Nick Clegg came close to expressing this view."
"Because of the very close partnership we've had with the United States, understandably so in the cold war period, I think we've been quite relaxed about this very heavy dependency both in the public and the private sector, on American technology. I just so happen to believe that is now changing because the rupture notwithstanding the pomp and ceremony of the state visit by Donald Trump this week the transatlantic rupture, in my view, is real. I think the Americans and we've been on notice for thi"
Day two of the state visit moves from ceremonial events to policy talks as Donald Trump travels from Windsor Castle to Chequers for private talks with Keir Starmer and a press conference. Trump employed poetic metaphors to characterise deep US-UK ties across history, faith, culture and destiny. Keir Starmer defends conciliatory diplomacy on the basis that it secures tangible benefits, citing announcements of US investments worth 150bn for the UK. Critics question the depth of those benefits and warn the investments may be tokenistic. Nick Clegg described AI pledges as crumbs and warned of excessive UK dependence on US technology and a real transatlantic rupture.
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