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With the British Civil Service becoming the latest of Trump's Twitter victims, I take a look

at what a Boris Johnson premiership would mean for relations with America. Plus, we also ask,

if we're to pursue reparations for past injustices, should Anglo-Saxons sue the Normans for 1066 and all that?

And last, why are male Tory MPs quite so keen on jogging?

Boris Johnson has been under fire this week for not coming to the defence of the former

British ambassador to America, Sir Kim Darik. So, is this a sign of things to come?

In this week's cover, Freddie Gray takes a look

at what transatlantic relations might look like under a Prime Minister Johnson, arguing that Boris

might better understand Trump than Theresa May ever did. Freddie joins me now, together with

Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics at King's College London, and director of the UK in a changing Europe initiative.

Freddie, you say in your piece that this diplomatic crisis is also an opportunity for both Boris and Trump.

What exactly do you mean by that?

Well, I think it's obviously an opportunity in that Anglo-American relations, while sort of cordial,

have not been as good as they could

have been in the last few years. And this is largely down to the fact that Theresa May and a lot of

her team and a lot of civil servants can't really handle Trump. They can't really compute

Donald Trump. And it's understandable, perhaps, it was a shock to everyone that he won the election.

But Boris has shown signs that he does see the potential upsides of a shock to everyone that he won the election. But Boris has shown signs

that he does see the potential upsides of a Trump presidency. And he doesn't let his sort of

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