How Singalong Starmer got his deal ... and a bit part in Trump, the Musical

A huge day in import-export yesterday, as even Rome's billion-per-cent tariff on American popes was lifted. The much bigger news, though, concerned the partial easing of recently imposed import taxes on British goods in the form of a starter UK-US trade deal, leaving the biggest little country in the world basking in the glow of an achievement our own prime minister seemed to hint had something of VE Day to it. In Britain, we have an old saying about dejection - "you look like you've lost a pound and found a sixpence" - but this was an entirely new spin…