Trump and May. She channels Reagan and Thatcher in the first speech of her American visit.

Downing Street may have briefed in advance that there’s no real comparison. But she will clearly play on it for all it’s worth.

“NATO – the cornerstone of the West’s defence”. The Prime Minister’s speech to the Republican Party Congress: full text

“Let us renew the relationship that can lead the world towards the promise of freedom and prosperity marked out by those ordinary citizens 240 years ago.”

Lord Ashcroft: What do the voters expect from Trump? My new poll of 10,000 Americans reveals all.

Will he make America great again? What is more important – jobs or building the wall? And why do Democrats think Hillary lost?

Iain Dale: No matter what detail the Government gives on Brexit, the Remainers will never be satisfied

Plus: Can Corbyn survive losing both by-elections? Trump has the tone of Mussolini and the content of Lindbergh. And: another Lib Dem blunder.

Trump and torture

The President doesn’t indulge in euphemism or try to dodge the abhorrent idea. And he’ll keep on talking about it.

James Frayne: We need more realism in post-Brexit foreign policy

Too many politicians now treat diplomacy as an arena for domestic culture wars, but must recognise how ineffective, and harmful to our national interest, that can be.

Garvan Walshe: Leaked Transcript of May’s meeting with Trump

“I had one of your guys in here the other day. Amazing guy. Brilliant guy. Gove. Gorgeous Gove. Wrote a tremendous article – a stupendous article – about me.”

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May promises a White Paper and Corbyn should run up the white flag

We never thought we would write the words “Bring back Ed Miliband”.

Kieran Mullan: Trident. Don’t do Putin’s work for him.

The idea that information about the incident in question was crucial to the Commons vote on renewal is ridiculous.

James Frayne: Will slow and steady work for May?

She is uninterested in playing the traditional Westminster game in which policies are presented as the final word from governments.

The canting, self-righteous, liberal enemies of Trump who shouted “liar” at him – and failed

His critics have fallen for the Fact-Checking Fallacy: the illusion that in politics or journalism, accurate facts are all that matter.

Nadhim Zahawi: Good news for democracy in West Africa last weekend – and why it matters

It has been fabulous to see ECOWAS stand up and enforce progress in their own region.

WATCH: May – “Whenever there is something that I find unacceptable, I won’t be afraid to say that to Donald Trump.”

“I will be there as a female Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.”

Mrs May goes to Washington

She waited for a phone call when Trump won his election. And she watched as he puffed Farage. But he seems to have decided that he needs her.

Carolyn Fairbairn: If the Government gets its Industrial Strategy right, we can help make the economy stronger and fairer

We need sectoral centres of excellence that strengthen our economy, create higher wage jobs and help us trade across the globe.