US President Donald Trump said he gets on well with Keir Starmer - despite the UK being 'liberal, which is a bit different from me"- and said they would speak in the next 24 hours

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had a call planned with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the next 24 hours. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said he and Starmer "get along well" despite him being "liberal,

US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a "very good job thus far" and that the pair have a "very good relationship". Asked by the BBC on board Air Force One about his relationship with Sir Keir, Trump added that they would be having a call "over the next 24 hours".

While there were moments of true Trump fantasy - changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico, taking back the Panama Canal, life on Mars - compare and contrast the enthusiastic boosterism of President Donald Trump's speech on day one in the new job with that of Sir Keir Starmer back in July and his subsequent utterings.