Trump’s Scotland visit gives Starmer invaluable access

Two times around, the US president and the prime minister went, looking down on Donald Trump’s new golf course north of Aberdeen.

Finally, they came into land, days of diplomacy garnished with absurdity.

Downing Street are reconciled to the Trumpian ways of doing international affairs.

If doing a few airborne laps of the president’s new Scottish golf course are par for the course on board the presidential helicopter and en route to a private dinner with him, so be it.

This notionally “private” trip for Trump has been actually very public.

Of course it has: it is how the president rolls.

The president’s private interests are talked up in public office, even down to the quality of the plywood at Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Ayrshire, where he was before he flew on to Aberdeenshire.

And all…