Portrait of the week | 6 June 2019

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President Donald Trump of the United States made a state visit to the United Kingdom, avoiding protesters by arriving at Buckingham Palace by helicopter. He brought quite a few of his family, visited Westminster Abbey and was given halibut and lamb at a state banquet. Proposing a toast, the Queen said: ‘After the shared sacrifices of the second world war, Britain and the United States worked with other allies to build an assembly of international institutions to ensure that the horrors of conflict would never be repeated.’ Trump joined the Queen in ceremonies to commemorate D-Day. Earlier, Trump had swapped insults with Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and, asked by the Sun about the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming prime minister, had replied: ‘I think he would be excellent.’ To Theresa May, the Prime Minister, Trump said: ‘I think we will have a very, very substantial trade deal.’ Although she was resigning as party leader on 7 June, he added: ‘Stick around. Let’s do this deal.’ He arranged to meet Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit party, but declined to meet Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, who had boycotted the banquet. Larry, the Downing Street cat, found a refuge between the rear wheels of the Beast, the President’s bulletproof Cadillac.

In one day, 74 migrants were intercepted as they crossed the English Channel on eight boats. Peter Willsman, a member of Labour’s National Executive Committee, was suspended from the party after a recording was published of him saying to a journalist: ‘This is off the record. It’s almost certain who is behind all this anti-Semitism against Jeremy [Corbyn]. Almost certainly it’s the Israeli embassy.’ Killdren, a band booked for Glastonbury this month, was criticised by some for the lyrics of its song ‘Kill Tory Scum’: ‘Even if it’s your dad or your mum, kill Tory scum.