Laura Kuenssberg

Alison Rowat: ‘I know who is to blame for attack on my friend Donald,’ says Farage

Week two of the new Labour government begins and Sir Keir Starmer is finding foreign affairs taking up the lion’s share of his attention. His first task as prime minister was travelling to the Nato summit in Washington DC, where he, like other world leaders, was pressed into commenting on President Biden’s fitness for office. (“On really good form” was Sir Keir’s assessment.) He was hardly back in Downing Street when news came of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Sir Keir may not have been familiar with the town of Butler, Pennsylvania before yesterday, but like the rest of the world he knows it now.