The one thing that struck anybody having conversations with anyone involved in the Trump team, from lowly researchers to senior advisers, was the unanimity of hatred about Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government. There was no pretence, no attempt to hide it.
It is pretty wild. The alphabet agencies are generally built on American chauvinism above everything, you’d think they would realize that Trump is going to be the final nail in the coffin of the American empire. Just not in the healthy way many people hoped for.