Donald Trump looms large over UK election

He might not say a single word about the UK between now and US voting day on 5 November. But Donald Trump will affect our own election, whenever it’s held.

Over the next few months, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will be challenged to explain how they would deal with the presidential frontrunner and his policies. What would they do if he wins the White House and pulls the US out of Nato? Or strikes a deal with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine?Even if our election is held very late in the year and Mr Trump has already lost, our political battles will have been fought in his shadow. If he has been defeated but is again refusing to concede and there’s a risk of violence, we might go to the polls feeling very uncertain about the future.

Mr Trump’s endorsement did Boris Johnson no harm in 2019. Yet MPs wonder if his support could do more harm than good this time, even for a fellow outsider like Farage.

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