AS love-ins go, that will take some beating - Sir Keir Starmer flew home a happy man last night.
The stakes could not be higher, and with the help of a trump card in the shape of King Charles, his visit could barely have gone better.
"I think you are trying to find a divide between us that does not exist," Sir Keir insisted at the first whiff of awkward questions.
The President can be a temperamental and irritable menace at times, but he was in full gushing mode at the White House last night.
And the PM almost looked like he believed it when he said "it's good to know that we have a true friend in the Oval Office.".
