It was always an unlikely political bromance: the camera-loving, right-wing businessman hitting it off with a restrained, left-wing London lawyer. Cupid's arrow struck during a two-hour dinner at Trump Tower in September 2024. Five months later in the Oval Office, Starmer whipped out an invitation from the King. The president almost purred. The strength of that initial Trump-Starmer relationship was both a surprise, and a rare example of a clear success for the PM amid a domestically difficult