
Ceasefire: What’s next for the UK?
What happens inside government when the US President Donald Trump threatens to “destroy a whole civilisation”?
As tensions spike following extraordinary comments from Donald Trump, former Deputy Cabinet Secretary Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson, ex-advisor to Theresa May and Boris Johnson, take you inside the rooms where officials scramble to respond to the unpredictable. From emergency calls with ambassadors to the quiet panic of Whitehall planning for an oil shock, they reveal how the UK system struggles when the rulebook no longer applies.
They also ask: how should Keir Starmer handle a…
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