The decision was made by ten people, including Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, with only Lucy Powell, Labour’s deputy leader, voting for Mr Burnham. Fifty Labour MPs signed a letter to Sir Keir calling the decision ‘a real gift’ to Reform. Sir Keir found it hard to stay friends with President Donald Trump of the United States. Mr Trump said of Nato allies: ‘They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan… and they did. TikTok agreed to operate in the United States under a new entity separate from its Chinese owner ByteDance.