DAN HODGES: Our politicians fawn over King Donald. But he only respects those who take a stand - not those who bend a knee

It had become a crowded and competitive field. ‘Now that President Trump is back in the White House, the United States is once again the shining city upon a hill to which the UK, and, indeed, the world, will once again look for leadership, courage and for freedom,’ the former Tory Home Secretary gushed, while addressing the neo-conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. Donald Trump’s first term in the White House unleashed the phenomenon known as Trump Derangement Syndrome Or he did until last Wednesday, when Mandelson dramatically embarked on what in diplomatic circles is known as a desperate and degrading reverse ferret. ‘He certainly has from me.’ Donald Trump’s first term in the White House unleashed the phenomenon known as Trump Derangement Syndrome. The West must be saved and this is the start.’ Both Suella Braverman, left, and Liz Truss have sought to ingratiate themselves with Donald Trump's administration For his part, Foreign Secretary David Lammy, whose early efforts at global diplomacy involved branding the most powerful man in the world ‘deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic’ and a ‘neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath’, has now apparently come round to the view Trump is ‘funny, friendly and warm’ and in possession of ‘incredible grace’.