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Keir Starmer visiting Donald Trump in Washington this week Pic: UKPrimeMinister/No10

Defence, diplomacy and development: these are the three D’s of foreign policy.

Prior to Tuesday, the first two had been under threat. Our spending on defence - a relatively pitiful 2.3 per cent - had left us woefully reliant on our NATO allies: an institution whose futur…