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First question from Leslie in Highgate. If you were writing the briefing notes for Kier Starrmer's trip to see Trump

in Washington, D.C., what would your top advice be? Well, don't give away the UK would be top.

Because there's a lot of handing over of territory going on. And he's such a sort of implacable

real estate developer. That would be my kind of bold, bold point number one.

But I guess it's going to be a hell of a week and maybe a week and change in terms of diplomacy,

shuttle diplomacy, because Keir Stama and Emmanuel Macron are sort of vying to be the next up to go to the White House.

And at the time recording, we don't know who's going first, but they will be going this week.

And then it looks as though, in fairly short order, there will be a meeting, a face-to-face meeting, probably in Saudi Saudi between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

I can't believe I'm saying that, but it is.

So in a way, Stama and Macron in the most sort of back of an envelope way conceivable,

have to get across to Trump as best they can in their individual meetings, the urgency of the situation.

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