Is Boris Johnson learning to stand up to Donald Trump?

With bust-ups over Huawei, the tech tax and Iran, is the love-in between the two blond leaders over?

We became used to reading that Boris Johnson, once in No 10, would be Donald Trump’s poodle, and there were very some good reasons for believing that.

During the Tory leadership race, he urged us to “pay tribute” to the US president’s record and there was the occasion he came close to allowing Washington to pick our ambassador.

Of course, Johnson has also been accused of mimicking Trump’s record for near-pathological fib-telling and for offensive and incendiary comments to fire up his supporter base.