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Brooke Unger Senior digital editor

Fanfared and fed by royalty, Donald Trump is about to head back home after his second state visit to Britain. He and Sir Keir Starmer didn’t let their differences spoil the mood at their post-banquet meeting. The “special relationship” looks as strong as ever. But its terms have changed fundamentally, as our analysis shows. Mr Trump will be flying back to a hostile reception in America, at least if he’s paying attention to public opinion. Our poll tracker shows that his net approval rating has sharply dropped.       ----oooo00O00oooo----

                                                            

Hello from the FT newsroom, where we are closely following Donald Trump’s unprecedented second state visit to the UK this week. The US president has already been treated to a day of pomp and pictures with the royal family. Today he will meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer for potentially tense talks about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. 

Starmer will be hoping that flattery continues to avert Trump’s ire. But as our US national editor Ed Luce puts it, “there is something odd about a special relationship where dodging bullets counts as a win”. And with a press conference looming, Starmer may yet be caught out by questions over convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Trump and Britain’s former ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson. To follow our coverage of today’s talks, click here.