Starmer tries to woo Trump – but has the US-UK relationship lost its spark?

UK PM hopes charm offensive will yield benefits but Eurosceptics in president's coterie could scupper plan

Is there enough love left in the US-UK special relationship or has the magic faded?

That is the question that Keir Starmer arrived in Washington to pose at what Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain's ambassador to Washington from 2012 to 2016, called one of the most consequential meetings of a British prime minister and president that we have had since the second world war".