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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics

and the Trump presidency for the new Spectator USA website. I'm joined today by Dominic Green, who is Spectator

USA's arts editor and a Brit living in America. And we're going to be talking about the British

reaction to the forthcoming visit of Donald Trump to our shawls in June. Dominic, we've just heard

hot off the press that Jeremy Corbyn

shock horror is going to be snubbing the state banquet for Donald Trump when he is in London.

This is not to most of us very surprising news, given what Corbyn has said about Trump in the past,

but the more pressing question for me

anyway is, does Donald Trump have any idea who Jeremy Corbyn is? Well, Freddie, as you know,

until quite recently, most people in Britain didn't really know who Jeremy Corbyn was. Unless you

were a terrorist or a militant vegetarian, you probably hadn't encountered him yet.

So I'm almost certainly sure that this is the first time Donald Trump has heard of him.

Though given Corbyn's past, I imagine the American security services are familiar with him.

I'm not actually sure that Donald Trump will pick up this latest snub from Jeremy Corbyn.

He may have picked up the news that John Burko has said that he should not be allowed to speak to Parliament. Is that right? I gather

now Burkow has apologised for that. Yes, the original incident happened in 2017 when Burko took it

upon himself to refuse the invitation, but immediately

afterwards he did admit that it wasn't really his decision to make. There were two speakers,

the Speaker of the Commons and the Speaker of the House of Lords, and they're meant to

work this stuff out between them. So he apologised to the Speaker of the Lords, Norman Fowler,

and so really it wasn't his decision in the first place.

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