Trump and Johnson don’t need to downplay their relationship, we all know Britain will be US territory in a matter of days

No relationship between concurrent leaders has been as symbiotic

If Boris Johnson ever erred in his analysis of Donald Trump, the fault lay in being too harsh.

Yup, with the Nato summit bringing the terracotta Kraken to town, it’s time once again to juxtapose old quotes with the newly minted in the hope of alighting on some of those weeny contradictions the vulgar prefer to call whoppers.

It isn’t a difficult game to play, and since it inevitably confirms what everyone was sick of knowing long ago, there isn’t much point in playing it. Still, it just about makes the cut as comic relief.