World of Politics with Harry McGee

There was a game show on TV in the 1970s with a novel concept for the time. Three people would come on and all claim to be one person, say – for illustration purposes – Peter Smith, an astronaut.

But only one of them was really Peter Smith.

The contestants had to guess which two of the three were lying and who was the Real Peter Smith. At the end of the contest, the host would say: Step Forward the Real Peter Smith.

It’s a bit like that at the moment as we try to figure out who is the Real Donald Trump. Is he the transactional deal maker, a pragmatic........

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