Maybe getting slapped down by Washington on the eve of the Labor Party conference left them having to shadow box to keep up appearances. Speculatively, that is all there is to it.

I mean, looking from Lammy’s point of view, what else can he really say? “I was going to do this but Biden told me not to, aren’t we a great new government nothing like the old one”?

Perhaps anyone who believes the UK has soverignty will be distracted by the illusion..

Shyaku