Henry Zeffman

Or as you say, if this is a rhetorical bust up and it's something that will never actually...

have to bother the government in concrete terms.

But as you said, Henry, if it does, what on earth would they do?

It does.

But there's another wrinkle though, hey, because being in Donald Trump's bad books is not necessarily a bad thing for a British politician right now.

He is not popular in this country by and large.

And, you know, there's a lot of chat and a bit of joshing about whether or not Keir Starmer has finally found a moment where he can do the Hugh Grant love, actually, I'm going to tell that big brash American where to go

Not sure the comparison really holds that much water.

But from a political point of view, there is a flicker of advantage, even though from a security and diplomatic point of view, it is potentially an absolute disaster.

And it's certainly unknowable.

And the king's going, tomorrow, what's he going to say?

Oh.

Yeah, but I'm not sure Donald Trump is very interested in things like mechanisms in treaties.

I mean, because also, you know, the way that he's looked at NATO, saying he's crossed with NATO members for not helping him

in Iran, that's not the point of NATO.

NATO is a defensive alliance.

It's not a group of countries that promise to go along with each other whenever they fancy taking on an international campaign.

So I'm not sure that deep understandings of how NATO's architecture is meant to work are really something that sways the man who sits behind the big fat desk in the Oval Office.

and every arched eyebrow, every remark that's caught on camera, every single moment that is in front of the cameras is going to be analysed to death.

So get ready for that every week, everyone, because next week we might be going, and then the bit when the king didn't let Donald Trump go first into the room.