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.

The Prime Minister said ‘nobody wants to see that’ after an angry clash between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was televised. Sir Keir Starmer said he ‘felt uncomfortable’ watching footage from the Oval Office,

Meeting between the Labour prime minister and US president touched on Ukraine, tariffs, trade deals, the Chagos Islands, Nato and a historic state visit invitation from King Charles

Starmer seems to have come away with the chance at avoiding tariffs by recognising the constraints of the reality on the ground in Washington.

Sir Keir Starmer has paid a visit to the White House for crunch talks with Donald Trump on Ukraine, trade and technology, following the announcement of the US President's state visit invitation. The Prime Minister will push Mr Trump to provide a US 'backstop',

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are reportedly considering a joint return to Washington, D.C., in tandem with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky traveled to the United States last week to meet with President Donald Trump and to finalize a long-term U.

However, according to the sources cited, U.S. and Ukrainian officials rejected this idea, believing it better to "let passions cool." For five days, Starmer and Macron urged Zelenskyy to change his approach to communicating with Trump,