By Andrew Marr

The images from Donald Trump’s State visit have so far been all the highly predictable ones - the big green whirlybirds, the well-behaved horses and golden carriages, the soldiers dressed as if it were 1890.

He loves us, or at least our castles: can’t we begin to love him back?

But we need to lift aside the pomp and circumstance to ask some hard and uncomfortable questions. What’s really going on here? Isn’t this the political decoration to disguise a massive reverse takeover of British democracy? Isn’t all the fawning and ceremonial merely tributes to America from a vassal state?

Today we are faced by not just an unusually assertive US president who uses tariffs to interfere deeply in other countries’ politics, but also awesome American technology, reshaping Britain outside our control.

The true........

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