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Andy Burnham and Donald Trump met on the outskirts of the UN summit without the Starmer Trump card of a letter from the King.

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But it was not without flattery and diplomatic acrobatics from both world leaders.

On a day when the President had nearly a dozen meetings with other heads of state, it suited both Downing Street and the White House to keep the meeting lower-key than before.

Yet, No10 will be pleased with how their nearly hour-long meeting went.

It's always a good sign when it goes on longer than hoped, and this was more than the 30minutes originally billed.

Unusually, the cameras were only allowed in at the end, which gave us close-ups of Burnham twiddling........

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