JD Vance’s UK holiday has been nothing if not eventful, but it took an embarrassing turn on the golf course with an excruciating four-putt.

On his trip to Britain, the US vice-president has gone fishing with David Lammy , the Foreign Secretary, and had formal discussions on fraught issues such as Ukraine and free speech.

He then went to the Cotswolds, where he failed to ingratiate himself with the locals , who complained that his sizeable entourage – a 19-vehicle motorcade accompanied by a helicopter – meant they were “completely sealed off from the outside world”.

But having travelled to Scotland to play Trump Turnberry – his boss’s course – Mr Vance might well have wished he was sealed off from the rest of the planet as a painful four-putt was caught on camera.

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