For this week’s Lowdown, I wanted to talk to Rafael Behr of the Guardian, one of the smartest political writers in Westminster

The urgent question I had for him was this.

The West is facing its gravest crisis since 1945: can Keir Starmer cope with it.

Starmer is a brilliant problem solver. But what if Trump is a problem that cannot be solved? What if the UK has no choice other than to reject an unhinged United States and decide that its future is with Europe?