What next for the special relationship? What Keir Starmer needs to navigate in a second Trump term

By Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University

Keir Starmer may well have gone to bed on Tuesday night hoping to wake up on Wednesday morning to find himself teamed professionally with Kamala Harris – a fellow state prosecutor of the centre-left who happens also to be the leader of both the free world and his country’s closest ally.

His reverie might even have extended to envisage a mutually-beneficial two-term relationship of harmony and even intimacy, not unlike that of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

But shocking (if explicable) as it may seem, Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States for…

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