Some used gunboats and others used dollars but, when it came to diplomacy, Donald Trump was surely the first world leader to have deployed Sylvester Stallone. The former cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill tells the What Were You Thinking? podcast that the American president tried to engage with Theresa May through the medium of Mr Stallone’s films. Perhaps she was stunned that Trump had watched films about the French poet. George Eustice, the environment secretary, has won few admirers with his bungled briefings on foreign travel,

Source: The Times May 19, 2021 21:00 UTC