The other, even more transformed reality for the ruling Labour government under Starmer, is that the US, rather than China, is the greatest source of instability. Since the end of the Second World War, Britain and America have been close allies. Nonetheless, there have been the occasional blips. America did not support Britain’s claims over the Suez Canal in the 1950s. Britain did not send troops to fight in the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Margaret Thatcher was furious when US President Ronald Reagan unilaterally invaded Grenada, a Commonwealth state, in 1983. But despite this, the links reverted almost immediately to their underlying closeness.