US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wrapped the state visit with a news conference at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, on Thursday. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images London —

In his state banquet speech, Donald Trump said the bond between the United States and Britain was “unbreakable.” In truth, the British government has feared all week that one misstep during the US president’s state visit could blow up the “special relationship” – and with it, Keir Starmer’s premiership.

Trump’s second state visit came at a dreadful time for Britain’s beleaguered prime minister. Days before Trump arrived, Starmer fired Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to Washington after the extent of his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffr

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