Bridge-building has been a struggle for recent British prime ministers. Boris Johnson was widely mocked when he proposed a 28-mile link from Scotland to Northern Ireland, spanning a trench containing 1mn tonnes of unexploded munitions, chemical weapons and radioactive waste.
Sir Keir Starmer was also greeted with some incredulity when he suggested on the eve of this week’s trip to Washington that he could be the link between an unconstrained White House and a Europe traumatised by Trump’s…
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