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US-China relations under the second Trump administration,” Minnich said. This rapprochement has been in the works since the UK’s governing Labour party swept to power in July 2024. Former Foreign Secretary David Lammy
UK government. The Foreign Office says this trip will mark the 250th anniversary of US independence, and will celebrate a partnership of "shared prosperity, security and history". Trump has always spoken highly of the royals
relations for decades, with the US president, Donald Trump, [threatening to rip up a trade deal](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/15/trump-us-uk-trade-deal-starmer-iran) and to recognise Argentina’s claims [to the Falkland Islands](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/could-donald-trump-withdraw-us-support-uk-sovereignty-falklands) in response. Reeves
Trump argued the laws, which have long been a source of tension in US-UK relations, targeted “top companies in the world”. “The UK did it, a couple of other people did it,” he said
relations for a century," says Andrew Lownie, author of the best-selling biography of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. "We're dealing with a very unpredictable president," says Lownie. But if anyone can influence Trump, he adds
tensions over the Iran war. The US–Israeli war on Iran began on 28 February and remains unresolved. The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively choked by competing Iranian restrictions and a US blockade, severely
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tensions between the US and the UK. But the shooting incident in Washington DC at the weekend, at an event attended by President Trump, added another layer of security concerns. The UK ambassador said
tensions that have developed between the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) and Starmer’s government over the US’s role in global alliances. “The visit of [King Charles III](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/prince-charles) should serve
US president’s waning interest in the [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine) war, the prime minister will use the summit in Armenia to begin negotiations to participate in the European Union’s loan scheme for Kyiv
relations between Europe and the United States, along with a potentially devastating defence impact, reared its Medusa-like head. Again. "No worries," Spain's determined-to-appear calm prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, said to waiting
relations have largely been calm in recent days. But in recent days, reports have suggested that the Pentagon has proposed a review of the US historical neutrality over the Falklands dispute — as ties between Washington
relations?** The two countries remain locked in a [fragile tariff truce](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/02/china-us-trade-war-truce-donald-trump), reached last autumn after tensions threatened to erupt into a full-scale trade war. Trump has long complained about China
UK, Sept. 17, 2025. **Yui Mok/AP/Pool PA** Yui Mok/AP/Pool PA LONDON—When entertainer Bob Hope serenaded Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the White House in [1976,](https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/digital-research-room/topic-guides/queen-elizabeth-ii) it captured a warmer
Trump’s election win in early November 2024. The pound fell against the dollar every day this week as leadership tensions gripped Westminster, culminating in the prospect of Burnham challenging Starmer for the role
tension in the UK due to the United States-Israel war on Iran: economic woes, political friction and worries about the country’s readiness for the future, strategically and militarily, if the conflict persists
Starmer has criticised the war on Iran, saying it is against the interests of the UK. He also refused to join a military operation sought by Trump to forcibly reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Instead