The disintegration of the pair's friendship has benefits - and the PM is getting steadily more comfortable at taking advantage.
Those who have left the government are more honest - and sometimes damning - about transatlantic relations. Ben Judah, who advised David Lammy as foreign secretary and accompanied him to the White House wrote this week that the US "no longer only cooperates with us as allies but coerces us as vassals".
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