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A renewed special relationship

21 January 2017

9:00 AM

21 January 2017

9:00 AM

Freddy Gray, Paul Wood and Kate Andrews discuss Trump’s arrival at the White House:

 

As president, Barack Obama was too cool for the special relationship. The romantic bond between the United States and Great Britain, which always makes Churchill fans go all soggy-eyed, left him cold. Obama was more interested in globalism, ‘pivoting’ to Asia and the European Union.

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