The President insists that he and the Prime Minister ‘like each other a lot’.
Indeed, the next shutdown might come before very long. And there’s no sign that Trump or his opponents are in a compromising mood.
The brutal reality is that Britain needs the country the President governs – and so by extension needs him too.
It can be hard to look past the President’s excesses – but the realities of government and the economy tell a more mixed story than you might assume.
Iran’s demonstrators are asking for reform, and all democrats should openly support their goals.
Too often it seems as though our perimeters are seen as a problem to be patched-up rather than an asset to be fully modernised.
In a whole host of countries – Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland – A&E waiting times are typically under an hour.
As a permanent member of the Security Council and close ally to all members of the Coalition, it is in a perfect position to do so.
They propose a bespoke agreement that would permit mutual market access, with a Solvency II equivalence outcome built into it.
I understand the Government’s keenness to achieve a free trade agreement with the EU, but we need to be careful that the price is not too high.
Economically, it could be transformational, as it has been in Norway, which established its fund back in the early 1990s. It is now worth over a trillion dollars.
The President’s state visit has already been postponed at least once. Doing so again is the least worst option.
With an alarmingly few legislative days before Christmas, a looming shutdown is the last thing Congress and the White House needs on their plates right now.
Ignoring the family unit means pressures on benefits – and burdening some poorer families with the highest effective marginal tax rate in the developed world.
We must turbo-charge the vehicle of British entrepreneurship as we drive across the Brexit bridge which should connect us with the rest of the world.