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Love is lost: Why it's time to drop romance from US-UK special relationship

Theresa May's visit to the US as the first foreign leader to meet Trump has prompted much pondering

Donald Trump, Theresa May
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President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May gesture during their joint news conference in the White House

Sam Edwards | The Conversation

Theresa May’s visit to the US as the first foreign leader to meet President Donald Trump has prompted much pondering about how the “special relationship” will fare in a new world order, in which past and precedent have been cast aside. One thing is certain – the characters involved mean it now needs to take on a less romantic tinge.

When Winston Churchill first coined the phrase back in 1946, the idea of the special relationship was simple, and found strength in a long history of transatlantic associations. From English settlement of the New World in the 17th century, to the