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Shared prayers and tears: how Lammy wooed JD Vance and the White House

Analysts say foreign secretary’s empathy and pragmatism make relationship-forming easy despite political divides

It was famously something that Tony Blair did not do with George W Bush, or at least not something to which the then British prime minister wished to admit. But these are very different times.

When the US vice-president, JD Vance, and his family join David Lammy at the foreign secretary’s grace and favour home in Kent at the start of their summer holiday in the UK, they are expected to deepen their relationship by praying together, it is understood.

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