By Adam Boulton, Sky News commentator

The so-called ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the US is reflected in the cooperation between the two governments and personified in the relationship between the presidents and prime ministers of the time.

Voters have brought together some odd couples since 1946, when then-former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill coined the term in a diplomatic sense in a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri.

At first glance, there is no stranger relationship than that between newly elected Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Donald J. Trump, who is likely to be re-elected to the White House in November.

The left-wing Labor Party and the right-wing populist Americans are strange bedfellows.

Undaunted, the British side is already flirting with intent. Perhaps the two leaderships are a better fit than expected.

Despite his quip or joke about the UK becoming the first Islamist state with a nuclear weapon, JD Vance, the recently nominated candidate for vice president, could strengthen the relationship rather than hinder it.

Inevitably and ironically, the renewed US-UK intimacy will complicate the other special relationship that the new British government is trying to revive with the European Union. That is a topic for debate elsewhere.

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